Alan's New Travel Podcast - Give me a Break !

This is the fifth and final leg of my 5,300 kilometre journey down the great Amazon river to rendezvous with a friend. In this episode our boat gets besieged by young children begging in canoes, the gay guy in the hammock next to me want to get it on, another guy gives me a weired feeling and the weather improves

As I head down river this week, the three of us encounter a god fearing man, a domestic dispute, a blown turbo, ingenious bamboo poles, and one very angry Pierre, on my journey down the great Amazon river ...... contributions and donations humbly accepted through PayPal using my email address ... [email protected]

... in this weeks travel log episode I encounter a sniffer dog, Pierre and Carlos, we get raided by the Brazilian Police, and we discover a phanomima in the river water just before Manaus city

This episode of my continuing audio travel log recounts the 1,200 kilometers down the mighty Amazon river between Tabatinga to Manaus in Brazil, a real contrast from my first two ferry boats in Peru. Now in a Portugese speaking country I struggle to communicate with locals, and describe a watery phanomima, a police raid, an argument over money, and an over zealous sniffer dog

February 2017 ... This episode covers my next leg down the great Amazon river, this section is only about 370 kilometers whereas the first leg was around 500. And this time I get to see the elusive dolphins, a family of giant otters, a beautiful and colourful pair of macaw parrots and several massive storms that fill the wide river with huge trunks, branches, and other debris that the boat has to avoid. We deliver supplies and other goods to many of the small villages and towns on our way down this famous river. ... any donations and contributions are humbly accepted to keep this podcast alive, as its my only source of income at the moment and I really appreciate everyone who listens to my podcasts, all 7 of you ... at PayPal using my email address ... [email protected] ... thank you

Unplanned journeys and destinations keep the adventures coming, as I've never really been one to research or delve too deeply after I decided my basic plan. And the amazon river trip was one of those, I'd never planned to travel 5,300 kilometers across the top of south america, but did. Find out how I adapted to life on the great amazon river.

This is the final episode in the series of 5 parts (plus the original 'walking into a pandemic' episode), that describe life, and the events durning my 2020 camino walk from France to Santiago. Then I got stopped half way through my hike and lockdown at La Casa de los Dioses near Astorga, in northern Spain. With absolutely no facilities, no running water, no fixed toilet, no shower, no kitchen, no wifi, etc, and we just about managed to survive together for the three months, even with arguments, fights, selfishness, and egos. A real strange group of up to eight individuals who were all adamantly solo travellers, with strong opinions, most of them were camino hobos and vagabonds, these are people who live on the many caminos throughout Spain and Portugal but are not pilgrims, and I was one of only two true pilgrims locked down there, the other pilgrim was the only female at La Casa de los Dioses on the Camino Francés. (Contributions and donations to [email protected] at PayPal, thanks)

The saga continues. Lockdown is easing but life at La Casa de los Dioses is getting harder, Paco peels potatoes, Tao will have a massive hangover in the morning, Carlos crashes his bike into into a 4x4, David takes all his clothes off, Galya comes back as the sun goes down, and I thought the police had come for Carlos. These are just some of the event and interactions that occure when seven odd ball individuals are put together.

The saga continues, with David getting a phone of his own and then orders ayahuasca, Paco is always in the shack listening to spanish rock music from the 80s, Carlos has a grudge building up inside him about Davids actions, Galya has made new friends down at the petrol station, Tao dreams of having his own goat herd one day, and, oh yes, frank arrives and he oozes menace, and Davids friend is accused of murder, and as for me, I'm just chilling in the hammock

... in this weeks episode ... Francis fights with David, Galya mets the police, Paco can't access his porn, Carlos finds a hawks nest with eggs near the camp, a new weary camino hobo turns up, and me, I'm just chilling in the hammock as spring arrives with the odd swallow fly passed and the sound of a cuckoo