Edge of seven(teen)

Admittedly we were a bit anxious about the Andamans. All we really knew was that a guy from Alabama was killed there by an endangered tribe in late 2018 – fairly recently in the wider scheme of things. Confronted by all manner of moral dilemmas about whether we should go, but with no intention of…

Shame and fortune

We knew an extra special remembrance date would hit the calendar smack bang in the middle of the trip and so we’d aimed to be as far off the grid, and in the most spellbindingly exotic of locations, for when it did. Tucked in a tiny eastern pocket of the Bay of Bengal (technically still…

Pills, thrills and bellyaches

After breakfast, and after dipping in and out of the pool like a couple of restless otters in the burning heat of the morning sun, we were ready to change it up and explore Paradise Beach – which stretched for 1.5 kilometres beneath the steep and rocky clifftops of the estate. Vicky insisted on a…