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Amours de voyage
or, notes from an occasional traveller


By Nicholas Laughlin




To El Paují
Santa Elena de Uairen, Venezuela, April 2007
From my blog, 17 July, 2009

List: pirated Nollywood DVDs for sale
Paramaribo, Suriname, April 2009
From my blog, 14 July, 2009

Overheard: “It was so dark...”
Windwardside, Saba, June 2009
From my blog, 14 June, 2009


So many islands

Blowing Point, Anguilla, June 2009
From my blog, 13 June, 2009


Overheard: “My last lover...”

Treasure Beach, Jamaica, May 2009
From my blog, 30 May, 2009

“We are not the first”
Venice, Italy, July 2008
From my blog, 16 July, 2008

Native island
San Andrés, Colombia, June 2008
Published in Caribbean Beat, November/December 2008

Four duppies
San Andrés, Colombia, June 2008
From my blog, 4 June, 2008


Then there I was
Manaus, Brazil, March 2008
From my blog, 6 April, 2008

On being restless
From my blog, 16 January, 2008

Laying plans
From my blog, 7 January, 2008

Balkan perils
From my blog, 14 September, 2007

Another false start
Somewhere in South America
From my blog, 26 April, 2007


The fort with a view
Bartica and Kyk-over-Al, Guyana, August 2005
Published in Caribbean Beat, March/April 2007

An indirect route
Siena, Italy, May 2006
From my blog, 24 August, 2006

“It’s ten years or more since I heard this story from B...”
Overland to Kaieteur Falls, Guyana
From my blog, 2 May, 2006

He began to dream of rivers
Somewhere in South America
From my blog, 27 April, 2006

On the train from Dublin to Cork
Ireland, April 2005
From my blog, 17 March, 2006

Imaginary roads
Between 58 Miles and Kurupukari, Guyana, February 2005
From my blog, 24 November, 2005