When I was in Ecuador towards the end of August last year, Cotopaxi looked as though it was gearing up to some serious action: there were ...

It doesn't take long to walk around the town of Coromandel - cafes, souvenir shops, pub, bottle store, excellent general store, dairy....

There's nothing worse than packing up a wet tent [there are lots of things worse than packing up a wet tent] so in view of the predict...

Remember that beach from yesterday? This is how it looked today, our official rest day here at Waikawau. Well, we'd had such a wonde...

When your horse casts a shoe on an event like this, it's no big deal - Charlie the farrier is on hand for precisely this reason. So th...

Sleeping right by the beach, hearing the waves breaking on the sand, is such a pleasure that, after waking to a pink sky in the morning th...

My only complaint about the organisation of this trek - and, by crikey, it's amazing - is that we seem to have had the best day on on...