It's been a very stressful chicken day today. After saying I ate anything but chicken, I immediately thought, oh crap, I shouldn't have said that. So dinner was camel. I was also taken to the local animal market with chickens everywhere - tied up, in tiny cages, upside down. I spent the whole time staring down at Ali's crotch to save myself looking at traumatic chicken scenes rolling out before me. We have driven down the coast today, through little fishing vill...

After nearly 3 years the time has come again to leave Ween behind and go off and admire some dust somewhere. This time it's Western Sahara to look at desert cave paintings and get traumatised in camel markets. Ween has come home from swimming far too many times to find me sobbing in front of the tv as walruses hurl themselves off cliffs or lemurs with broken legs are left behind to die. I'm hoping a camel will spit at me and make it less harrowing. The main thin...

We are sitting on the roof of the guesthouse watching vultures circling us and considering popping to the shop next door for some frozen meat for them. They are much smaller than I thought and look a lot like chickens. There isn’t much else to do here - we arrived in Cartagena and it’s packed full of pot bellied Americans in shorts from cruise ships. Hundreds of touts running down the roads after you with the usual crap too which I don’t remember from last ...

Having diced with death in a tiny propeller plane to Medellin, we are here. It wasn’t very comforting being in the front row right behind the pilot seeing out the windscreen, especially when everyone made the sign of the cross at take off, every bump on the way and landing. The pilot had sat nav which made me very nervous, FFS is that how you fly a plane? Medellin is chockablock with Venezuelan refugees selling Indian jewellery, juggling at traffic lights and ...

Not too sure what to write about this place - we are in a guesthouse, the only guests with hummingbirds everywhere and a private chef. We had a ‘ Tasting Menu’ last night which was 5 courses of normal portioned food rather than the usual snail soup in thimbles or some revolting pretentious yuk. The only slightly wierd thing was when Ween had a chicken breast course, I got a soya burger which was a bit challenging. There are definitely too many bugs here which...