International Traveller

The SPICE of LIFE

Respected philosophers have long debated time travel, and the notion of being transported back to a bygone era. As I catch the sweet, spicy aroma of nutmeg and cloves as our sails billow into warm south westerlies, it seems as though they were onto something. I am cruising through Indonesia’s Banda Sea, home to the fabled Spice Islands, and it feels like I’ve taken a passage into the history books as we navigate pristine waters where explorers before us landed on these

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