We met Shell at the bus stop at around 20:30; the cheapest bus was not until 23:00 so we waited around chatting, playing cards, wondering around until it was time to board the bus. In my humble opinion the bus which took us to Pucon was one of the worse, or actually probably the worse we have had to date. It wasn't all that bad but it didn't live up to some of the others. It semt that Condor - the bus company had gone for quantity over quality. We were at the bac...

So if we our friends on Facebook you will know we made Chile and didn't get stranded in Mendoza. Getting to Mendoza went without a hitch despite the bus turning up thirty minutes late; causing a mild panic amongst us as it we had found South American public transportation to be most punctual. I finished the book I was reading - Questions of Travel. It wasn't a great book but in fairness it had a good ending I was not expecting at all. I listened to some Oasis unt...

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...

There was very little I knew about Paraguay, I didn't even know the capital city of the country until we were going there. The only things I could tell you before I went were that the Football team played in Red and White, they had a former goal scoring goalkeeper in Jose Chilavert and they had a striker called Roque Santa Cruz who played for Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City other than I knew didly squat. So with very little knowledge we headed off on the ni...

We made the night bus with about fifteen minutes to spare. Although Earl cut it fine as he went for number two, so some of my great 'where is my passport' delaying tricks were needed, to be fair though I didn't need to delay for long. The bus was an uncomfortable, squashed and restless 16 hour journey to the home of Iguazu Falls - Foz Do Iguacu. Once there we sorted our bus ticket to our next destination which would be Paraguay's Capital city and then made our wa...