Dear reader Travelling, being constantly on the move, means a lot of time is taken up thinking about your next meal, a bed for the night, a ticket for the onward journey. Moving along, often you can’t see the trees for the forest. How much time is left to draw portraits of the people whose country you’re travelling through? A few years ago, in a saving-for-the-next trip phase, I travelled virtually, solo and with Guapo. As a cost and energy saving exercise, I recommend it highly. Time was irrelevant. Each trip took several months – but hey what did it matter? The first one went to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, New Foundland, Svalbard, and the north-of-the-Arctic Circle areas in Norway, Sweden, Finland. The second trip went to the Amazon. For months we read every book we
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