A Magician brings tidings of a cold spell

Mago arrived today, on a boat from Buenos Aires. Mago means Magician in Spanish. Actually he is called “mono de milano”, the Monkey of Milan. Maybe he has a more convential name but when someone as charasmatic as Mono arrives such formalities seem unimportant  and inappropriate. He is a modern day legend of the Southern …

Three days to go .. and we’re on a 45 degree tilt.

Only three more days left on the boat and we’re drastically re-prioritising what is absolutely necessary for the 5000mileproject. We’re surrounded by half packed boxes of books, tools and clothes. Lista Light, our old 77 year old lady (wooden boat) has been our only home for the last four years and it is amazing what …

“Homosapien Uruguayanera”

The warmth of the “Homosapien Uruguayanera” is extraordinary. Our wonderful “abuelas” (“grandparents”) Primavera and Angelito who live on the river bank and whose small farm we pass through every day, welcome us by their fireplace to chat, eat and watch the Brazilian soap-operas. There is Mercedes and Reuben who

Dreaming of Water

It’s 1.30am. We’ve just arrived back on the boat. Twenty hours ago, at 05.30am, we found ourselves crawling out of bed,  jumping into the dinghy and onto our bikes to the local town to catch a bus to the capital, Montevideo. We had an appointment with a yellow fever vaccination (in which we paid to …