The next item on my To Do List was to get a library card and finish the Game of Thrones book, in fact this was the first productive thing I ticked off my list, followed by opening a bank account! Well getting the library card was easy, reading Game of Thrones though not so much without the long bus journeys and travel I had in South America I've found it hard to have time to read, but now I've finished Sherlock maybe I will get more time at work to get further th...

In my last blog I'd just had a brief stint in Vancouver and was now on my way to Whistler with Tom Ellis, to restore the bank balance, ski and take part in other random shenanigans! But why Whistler I here you ask and that's a good question. I've never been one with the cold, or snow and having a two and a half year period without a real winter has been awesome. To be honest Canada never really appealed to me until last winter when Matt and Tom were talking about...

It took me two planes and about five hour to get from San Francisco to Vancouver. The first thing I noticed as I got off the plane was that I could see my own breath. I was not use to this weather and what made it worse was that I didn't have chance to buy any warmer clothes in America so 90%of my backpack wasn't suitable for winter conditions and especially the extreme winters Canada can have. It wasn't the best forward planning from me. But I would manage with ...

So I'd left South America behind, I was on my way to Canada to work a ski season in Whistler. But before I faced reality and the job hunt again, I went to visit one of the first friends I had made in South America - Allie Engle. She lived in San Francisco, USA, so I thought it made sense to go there and not fly over it. Getting to San Francisco had its fair share of minor difficulties and annoyances. I thought I was well prepared when I turned up at the airport ...

So after roughly six months my time in South America is over. To sum up an amazing half year adventure here is a blog that will hopefully capture, review and pay tribute to the ups, downs, antics, shenanigans and escapades I have experienced in Latin America. Things I've learnt in South America · About 200 words in Spanish - still can't string a decent sentence together though. · The Brazilian Woman Rating System - They are so much b...