After heading North for the past nine months it’s nice to have changed direction. Its east now until the mouth of the Amazon – ETA May 2010 – with a bit of luck. An expedition of contrasts… Thursday day was a lovely day. The area to the north of Iquitos is rolling hills and manicured [...]

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Winston Churchill, London, 10th November 1942. I’m actually at the start line. That’s where I’ve got to. The year of planning, of worry over sponsorship, of endless letters asking for freebees, [...]

The 101 kilometres south of Iquitos are smooth sun-baked tarmac. So Cho and I decided that we would go for a marathon day and try and do the whole thing in 24 hours. At just over 5km and hour we could make it if we walked all day and all night… Fools. After 35km it [...]