On arriving to the shores of Lake Titicaca you notice a few things. The first is the altitude. It's really high up – around 3800 metres above sea level – which you notice because the lack of oxygen starts giving you headaches, and also

I spent one week on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao (pronounced kura-SOW) recently. Here are some things that stuck out to me: Multi-lingual Curaçaoans, at least the ones who work in the tourist industry, speak multiple languages fluently. In restaurants I would see