Challenges of International travel, and life.

Time for an update on our unravelling plans. Getting back home to New Zealand is proving more difficult than necessary. It’s completely understandable that carriers are rescheduling and making commercial adjustments to their business plan. To me, what is unacceptable is that their plans are not articulated to those they…
Friday 21st August. Thank you France, you are amazing. Now back in Blighty.
Tuesday 4th to Sunday 9th August. France.

Jen mentioned the recovery of Poki from home Saturday morning. Rob, the mechanic from Gumtree, who kindly rushed to our assistance with a recovery vehicle and trailer, carted Poki back to the workshop. I couldn’t get her started again after returning from the worship Friday afternoon. Rob was ultimately successful…
Days 313 – 320. Royal Oak Country Park. West Sussex. UK.
Day 307 to 309. Wednesday 3rd June. Veracruz. Mexico

it was soooo good to be driving Poki again. How you must wish you had experienced driving a 110 TD5 Defender. I can hear you gnashing your teeth and flailing your backs with birch bough’s, in frustration…:) Back to reality…:). Yesterdays drive from just outside Coatzacoalcos was largely uneventful. However,…
Day’s 287 to 298. May 12th to 23rd. Adjusting to lockdown in Guatemala.
Day’s 274 – 282. 29th April to 5th May. Marooned at Passaj-Cap. Guatemala.
Day’s 252-259. Tuesday, 7th to Tuesday, 14th April. San Marcos, Guatemala.
Day 248 & 249. Sat. 4th April, 2020. A little bit of Guatemalan history.
In the last blog Jen gave an insight into our immediate community. I’d like to extend that to take in some of the country’s more recent history. While we feel completely safe here now, it hasn’t always been so peaceful. The following is a cut-and-paste from Wikipedia :- A civil…