It was exciting to meet Jonny, French and all friends attached in Buenos Aires on the first day and so as the rugby was also on, this warranted some afternoon pubtime hours before heading off to the famous Pacha club in the night.There's loads to do in Buenos Aires; wandering around different neighbourhoods, like San Telmo with its markets and tango dancing on the streets, La Boca with its colourful El Caminito, a street of multicoloured tin houses built years ag...

So very excited to be back in Brazil ! After spending a day chillaxing in Florianopolis , we then began to head eastwards, our first stop being Piracicaba , a small city about 2 hours from Sao Paulo to visit Nino and Iuri, the 2 Brazilian sons who I lived with 2 years earlier in the Northeast during my year abroad. It was great to catch up, Nino managed to borrow a friends car so he could take us on a tour of the city…including a special trip to Choco Clai...

So since I last wrote I've passed through 4 countries, all of them different in their own way… After finishing the Inca trail, I spent my last few days in Peru in Arequipa, from where we visited the Colca Canyon, a canyon twice the size of the Grand canyon but less spectacular and where there was the most interesting museum I think I've ever been to - el Museo de Santuarios Andinos, which housed the mummies of a few Andean children from Inca times, whose c...

So the Inca Trail was no walk in the park. We were very lucky in that it didn't rain any of the time that we were actually trekking, just a couple of times during the nights. Our ´family´ of 27 for the 4 days were 22 x Argentinean, 1 x Kiwi, 1 x Spanish, 1 x German and the 2 of us. It just so happened that the Argies were some sort of fitness freaks and insisted on completing each day's walk in half the time given. The first day was quite easy in comparison to...

Riobamba was the next stopover after Banos, from where we caught the scenic ´ La Nariz del Diablo´ train (Devil´s Nose) to a little village called Alausi. G was ere….The train was something from the forties, where passengers travel on the roof, legs dangling, hair ablowing, holding onto the metal bars around the roofs rim. From Alausi, we traveled on our first air-conditioned Ecaudorian bus to colonial Cuenca …home to a plethora of markets, the best being ...