As Si and I are newbies to the blogging world, then I'm full of joyful optimisim that we will unlock our inner blogger and turn out to be naturally captivating story tellers. What will probably happen is that we'll drop a few lines every now and then to say something like "not dead, having fun". We're planning on uploading photos to this blog (I'm going to test that with this post) and then the tall one can share all his macro-lens pictures of exciting insect l...

Appropriate title that one, in more ways than one. This our new blog and this post is basically a test to check it all works. Hence title choice. Incidentally, I (Bethan) am pretty excited to be finally setting up my own blog. It hasn't been easy mind, in the last two hours Google (blogger) has failed me epically. But I'm optimistic that offexploring is the future - so far my extensive mental checklist of "looks pretty" and "has friendly maps" is all ticked. It...

Hello again blog! We're off on our travels again, this time to Peru (then Bolivia, then Chile). All for the very good cause of honeymooning. Our work is left behind us and the house is all locked up. Which means we've fully entered phase one: Depart Blighty. So far the flight is delayed and we can't appear to check in to our connecting plane from Madrid. But it'll be fine and I'm confident that we will manage to get to Phase Two: find our hotel in Lima with no ...