One fateful day when I was young, free and hopelessly naive, I left Heathrow Airport on a eleven-hour flight for the tropical paradise that is Costa Rica. This was to be the first leg of my ‘gap year’ abroad, volunteering at a Sea-Turtle conservation project on Gandoca beach, situated right next to the Panama border on the Caribbean coast.
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Mind the Gap
Finishing my degree was simultaneously a more and less dramatic occurrence than I had expected; an anti-climactic climax if you will. The physical completing of my last exam was curiously void of all pomp and circumstance…
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The Tourist Dilemma
Something that I did not expect to discover, sitting in the sun on the top of a rickety boat, ploughing through the azure water of Lake Titicaca in Peru, was how hard it is to be a tourist.
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