Daniel Doherty’s Blog

In my mind’s eye my image of going to ‘see’ the Panama Canal involved sitting quietly on a bench beside a wide river contemplating the sonorous passing of vast ships against a verdant jungle background on the other bank. Little did I realise that the only real way to ’see’ the canal is to take a trip out to the Mireflores lock where you ascend a series of escalators and elevators to gain purchase on

This recent immersion, alone in four different cities, feels so far away from the rain forest and the cloud forest that had been home for three weeks. Those three weeks culminating in a week in the deepest forest where in an island of vibrant green we sang our songs.   That less than two weeks and four hotel rooms ago but now the ‘song viruses’ that were so plangent at he point of departure begin

Dancing my Descent into Degradation Little did i know at the outset that what was designed to be a quiet Thursday evening in Medellin of detached social observation would descend by imperceptible degrees into the arms of the police. No one had told me that Thursday was the busiest party night, way busier than Monday but not right up there with Friday or Saturday. I had left it late to go out, having eaten earlier.

Untimely ripped from the photo sessions in the Anglican Cathedral and the rhapsodic family party that was flowing i am all too soon stifling tears of joy and wild gratitude as the cab speeds towards the airport, clutching for comfort a lone stem given to me by Katherina. Go back go back whispers the inner voicing haltingly there is no better place to be transported to than back among the cobbles and the echoes, the

Spooking the Spooky Men.I had not known what to expect of the Spooky Men at the Sidmouth Folk Festival last year. But then I was at  a stage in my life when expectations of almost anything were proving either exhausting or dangerous.  if i did have any expectations then they were of what the evening would not be rather than what it would be.  i was not expecting the Spooky’s to be at all Spooky