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Read more about the article Persona Non Grata

Persona Non Grata

April 2016 - Part 2Fidel was good enough to agree to look after the place and feed Campo and the chickens while I was away. He's currently doing a building…

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Read more about the article Beyond The Valley of the Frogs

Beyond The Valley of the Frogs

April 2016 - Part 1By the end of my second year as custodian of Jinja Island, I had managed, by accident or design, to generate a bit of a buzz…

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Read more about the article If the World Ends

If the World Ends

March 2016The next morning I was back in Bocas. Fidel had been good enough to drop in on Campesino and the chickens in my absence, make sure they had enough…

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Take Me Down To Panama City

February 2016Having a friend stay on Jinja for a prolonged period was a breath of fresh air. It's not that I found living on the island lonely, or that I…

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Read more about the article Floating In a Most Peculiar Way

Floating In a Most Peculiar Way

 January 20162016 began, as all years should, with fireworks and copious amounts of alcohol. We took in Toro Loco, Mondo Taitu and ended up at The Bookstore. Revellers! Shazia and…

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Read more about the article A Christmas Coral

A Christmas Coral

December 2015I don't know if you know this, but I'm a *bit* of a Star Wars fan.Having missed my opportunity to see Mad Max: Fury Road on IMAX when I…

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Read more about the article A Break In The Clouds

A Break In The Clouds

November 2015While I was working on making the island just that little bit more comfortable so I could justify charging people to stay, I hosted my first two AirBnB guests,…

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Off The Rails

October 2015As October rolled around I had to get my head into gear, make the Jinja Island house good enough for people to live in and get a publisher for…

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The Panama Good Times

September 2015Now that I was a bona-fide island owner, it was time to rubber-stamp my credentials. First things first: get myself a drivers licence so I could drive my boat…

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Read more about the article Stairway To Heaven

Stairway To Heaven

August 2015Crazy as this might sound, I had spent most of my first year on Jinja sleeping on the couch, for one damn good reason - if I fell off…

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