A little while ago, I wrote about giving out cheap reading glasses to the older Guna women in the San Blas islands of Panama. These are the indigenous people who live a simple life on these tiny islands very much as they have for 500 years (ever since the Spanish, Colombians, and finally the Panamanians … Read more
I went out to lunch yesterday. Actually, the whole purpose of coming to this deserted anchorage was to go out to lunch. It was blowing like stink, the skies were cloudy, and from time to time a handful of rain blew in through the hatch. I reckon I deserved lunch. There is supposed to be … Read more
If you’re going to start varnishing, you have to get off the boat. Well actually, once you finish varnishing, you have to get off the boat. The table looked wonderful: That deep, intense shine you get from being too impatient to do it properly with twelve thin coats and instead you ladle it on as … Read more
So far the record is seven years – I met a German who said had spent seven years in the San Blas and not left the islands even for a day. There are said to be 365 of them and the climate is perfect all the year round (you do get a few rain squalls … Read more
I’m still a bit shaky. I’ve watched the video that accompanies this post three times wondering whether I should record it again and pretend it was the first attempt (that’s what proper YouTubers would do). But I am strictly an amateur – so much so that the GoPro is back in its box because I … Read more
