Paraguay had been short, sweet and mental. There were midgets, a champion's league final equivalent, karaoke, train museums and a Paraguayan mansion. It definitely offered more than we expected and perhaps it was a mistake leaving Paraguay so early after hearing about several other great places to visit in the country, but it was too late we had booked our ticket to Buenos Aires and were off ski. Robert Smallbone asked me in Asuncion, Paraguay 'so what do you do...

We had saw, conquered and Mendozered Mendoza and now we were heading back to Buenos Aires for a couple of days. The journey had its moments coming back, most notably a bus exchange because one of our windows was shattered and thee Metro being held up because of rowdy Argentines. But we eventually made it back after a 16hour journey. We stopped off for a little snack when I ate the popular Argentinian snack - Empanada which is basically a Cornish pasty but slightl...

As I said in my last blog as everything was Spanish everything was a challenge and hard work, so the fact we made the night bus with no hitches or glitches was a proud moment for both Earl and me. I'd used my new found metro skills to navigate us to the bus station and then we managed to get on the right bus. The night buses were far more luxurious than the ones we were used to the last time we travelled together in Asia, they even had a fancy footrest and free f...

Hola Amigos, So my Australia adventure had come to an emotional clos, however my South American escapade was only just beginning and the first stop on the journey was the capital of Argentina - Buenos Aires. To get there though I had the ordeal of a 38 hour flight. I got on my flight and was sat between a short old Italian lady called Jane and a young Swedish girl called Louise. Now on flights I'm normally one of them guys who just puts their ear phones in, swit...