Greetings and bienvenido to my travelogue!

At various points I’ve used these pages to record my musings and incoherent ramblings about some amazing places I’ve been fortunate enough to visit in the past few years. When travelling, this site has more of a blog structure with new posts appearing every few days, but when I’m staying put a more permanent structure seems to make a bit more sense.

If you have stumbled here on purpose or by accident, please do feel free to have a poke around. In the main menu you will find links to the amazing bikes that have carried me on my travels and details of my major trips: South America 2020 – Europe and the Caucasus 2024 – Colombia and Cuba 2025.

While this may all look like a supreme vanity project, it’s really just a convenient way of me keeping an accessible record of some great times I’ve had and the lovely people I’ve met along the way. I hope you find something to make you smile.

Here’s a little bit of information about me…

I live in Hull in the UK, now mid-50’s having spent over 20 years working hard (too hard!) in university management and administration. I’m a music lover and would be lost without it. For the most part this involves listening and dancing to the amazing 60’s and 70’s. Northern Soul, Funk, 60’s R&B, Ska, Reggae all feature heavily. I can often be found dancing at various Soul do’s and love going to gigs for live music when I can. Since first travelling through South America I have also gained a taste for Latin beats, Salsa and Cumbia.

Here’s some of my favourite Mixcloud artists:

• Kieran Lockyear
• Gail Smith
• Duncan Hornby
• DJ Cal Jader
• Martyn Bird

I also spend a lot of time listening to the brilliant BBC offering – BBC Sounds – worth the license fee alone! The shows I regularly tune into are:

• Craig Charles (Funk and Soul Show)
• David Rodigan
• Gilles Peterson
• Cerys Matthews

Other passions include Rugby League (Canberra Raiders and Hull FC), European city breaks, hat wearing, sailing, my dogs Rugby and Stan, motorbike riding (of course). Most of all, I love going out for a few drinks, or a few too many, and having a laugh with friends, old and new.

I take an interest in current affairs and have views on most things. I’m definitely strongly in favour of equality, human rights, personal choice and responsibility, direct democracy and representation and feel that the state has some responsibility to deliver and maintain these goals. However, I feel that the current major party and electoral system in the UK does nothing for any of this (see Electoral Reform Society for more).