The last border crossing of my trip was probably the most eventful and stressful due to a dumb arse driver that 'forgot' to stop at the Brazilian part of immigration.. which meant missing the direct night bus to Sao Paolo and subsequently to missing the Corinthians home match the following evening! The one upside was seeing the beautiful Brazilian countryside on the way over to Sampa during the day. Getting off the bus and heading to the tube station I realised h...

The last border crossing of my trip was probably the most eventful and stressful due to a dumb arse driver that 'forgot' to stop at the Brazilian part of immigration.. which meant missing the direct night bus to Sao Paolo and subsequently to missing the Corinthians home match the following evening! The one upside was seeing the beautiful Brazilian countryside on the way over to Sampa during the day. Getting off the bus and heading to the tube station I realised ...

Argentina has been nothing short of awesome but it all started with a dodgy border crossing in the dark from Bolivia.. needless to say was happy to get to the other side and see the sign 5,000km to Ushaia! Had a real scenic bus ride down to Salta via Jujuy with an Argentinian met at the border before tasting my first of many slabs of local meat. Salta was serene, I loved walking through the streets on a Sunday afternoon to the sounds of tango and smells of parri...

The last couple of weeks have been mucho loco to say the least.. from a full body and bag scan at Cali airport (must look like a dodgy geeza) to landing at Quito airport where I shat a brick as didn't realize the airport was slap bang in the middle of the city centre..! Quito itself was nicer than anticipated, went around town with a top geeza that reminded me of a cross between Mr Bean and Kevin & Perry, top giraffe!! The teleferico was ear poppingly good a...

The first impression I got from Colombia was military men patroling a main street on a saturday night, I thought this place looks dodgy as hell.. couldn't have been further from the truth.. Leticia was lush, travelled up there from Iquitos with a Swiss guy had bumped into on previous occasions, we were even at the Burmhese embassy in Bangkok at the same time, small world! I loved Leticia, real tranquil and a great launchpad for excursions into the Amazon. Met so...