Hello People, We are just about to get onto a 24 hour bus back to Rio to try and devlop a tan before we come home, only 11 days left :o( We arrived in Rio about 3 weeks ago and enjoyed a stay at the Marriott. V plush and the time went a little too quickly. I'm sure you have heard the news so far and a piccie is posted in the album with the ring (and a very drunk andrew) We left Rio for more beaches, to the island resort of Ilha Grande and Lopes Men...

Hola, Well, we have had a couple of weeks of early starts but Im finally getting into this siesta malarky. We survived the altitude of the Colca Canyon with possibly the weirdest group of people ever. 4 typically french french people, a few locals, 1 english Mormon and 3 swiss missionaries, very strange indeed. But we saw a lot, relaxed in the hot water springs and got a chance to see the Andean condors, massive birds with 2.5 - 3mtr wingspans. We left...

Hola Gringos, How goes it? We are back in sunnier climes following what seems to be forever stuck in chilly places. We got some snowballing done in Chile before flying to Lima, Peru to meet Sarah and Terry for the next leg. Lima was a normal big city and we stayed in Miraflores which was ok. We did get stuck in one of the weirdst parades ever, understandably some chinese dragons marched by followed by the police, ambulance service etc, then came marchin...

Howdy, Well we arrived in Salta, Argentina from Bolivia and it was a welcome relief to feel some warmth on our faces, be able to clean our dusty clothes and wash in water that is only stopped from freezing by adding loads of salt Im sure. We also had the first of many meals involving steak or a bottle of red wine, usually a combination of the two. A couple of Irish lads we were travelling with, (hi Niall and Bob) were more impressed with the potatoes and spe...

Hey There, Well we are here in Tupiza, Bolivia. Wearing all our clothes trying to keep warm. Noone here has ever been so cold. The sun is bright but weak and the temperature which hovers around zero in the day, plummets when the sun goes down. We have spent the last 3 days in a 4x4 jeep truckig across the salt flats - there is 1 highway in Bolivia apparently and we have been nowhere near it. Even the rough roads have been avoided. Our first night on tour was...