"We are Toby & Alison. In October 2013 we packed up, left our careers and embarked on the trip-of-a-lifetime around the world. We have no idea how long we will travel for, or what we're going to do along the way. This blog is a record of our adventures and (hopefully minor) mishaps." 
Santiago and The End of an Affair
Santiago, capital of Chile and home to 5.5 million people, sits in Chile’s central valley 1-2 hours drive from either the Pacific or the Andes and Chile’s ski resorts. Large, modern and easy to get...
Category: volunteering
Posts about volunteering
Tarqui: Life & death in the Ecuadorian Amazon
One of our traveling goals is to volunteer across the world, largely for projects serving animals. So far we’ve done this in Guatemala and Costa Rica. Now it was Ecuador’s turn. Enter ZooRefugio Tarqui...
Volunteering at the Jaguar Rescue Center
In Costa Rica I fell in love, deeply in love. His name was Connan and he had the most amazing golden-brown eyes: they seemed to look straight into my soul. I was tempted to...
Attacked by a jealous monkey
This is the story of how I came to be bitten by a jealous lady-monkey and survived to tell the tale. In the interest of full disclosure, I also experienced a nightmare-come-true whilst volunteering...
Monkey School
Most of my time at the Jaguar Rescue Centre was spent looking after, napping with, attempting to discipline, comforting and playing with monkeys. Each day at the rescue centre the monkeys are taken to...