Highlander

I have recently accepted the sous chef position aboard The Highlander Yacht and my first month was spent cruising the Bahamas.

I took a short break from blogging. To be quite honest I wasn't up to much that could be converted into reading material, at first. I was falling into a lethargic lifestyle, reading, eating, sleeping and getting massages. After having my second massage ...

After departing company with Dan, my most excellent and generous tour guide (a bit gay though, it turns out he was after my sausage, but I explained that the only sausages I swing about are my own, and the raw sausages in a politicians kitchen, out ...

Video from Saturday, July 4, 2009 in Zakopane at dinner.  We were entertained by local highlanders who played and danced all night, and then made sure the members of our group tried to dance. ...

We had decided to take a detour to McLoed Ganj in Himachal Pradesh, home of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan government in exile, on our way to Amritsar. McLoed Ganj is at 1750m above sea level, so this detour would involve my first serious sustained ...

Our original plan had been to go from Railay straight to the island of Koh Phi Phi, but after our strenuously hectic itinerary in the run up to New Year, we had now entered a far more relaxed frame of mind, and the notion of spending some extra time ...

Took a deluxe bus from KL to Tanah Rata in the highlands. We left in an hour late just after a massive downpour. On the way up onto the hills the rain was relentless and about 3.5 hours onto the journey the bus came to a complete stop. There were lots of ...