RIGHTY. I'm NOT in Ushuaia anymore... but I'm doing the last month or so in retrospect so I'm spilting this blog up into two sections. Here's the first... MORE BORDERS, MORE BOUNDARIES After leaving El Chalten in Argentian Patagonia, me and Team Germany took the long bus trip to Puerto Natales in Chile. This took alot longer than expected, due to some amusing goings-on at the border. Before that we had to change buses in Calafate and spent some happy hours drin...

ESTOY EN SAN CARLOS DE BARILOCHE! It's been two weeks since the last blog, and it already seems a long time ago that I was up in Salta on the Tropic of Capricorn. I'm in some sort of crazy alpine resort now, but that's for later. Here's what I've been up to... A DAY IN THE LIFE OF... Meet Diego; he's your typical everyday Argentine. Diego gets up around 8 and has medialunas (crossiants) and coffee for breakfast before heading to work. Maybe he manages an inter...

I'M IN SALTA, northern Argentina, which means... JUMP! THE RETURN OF TRAVEL TOP TRUMPS - THE SOUTH AMERICA EDITION... Buenos Aires - Puerto Iguazu, Door-to-door - 21 hrs, Distance - 1067 Km aprox, Food - 8 (steak dinner!), MP3 player reliability - 0 (disaster), Films - 6, Luxury factor - 7, Sleep quality - 8 (best night's sleep I had had so far in S.Am). So yes indeed buses in South America are something else. I actually felt like I was flying business class! ...

I'M IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA! I know! Can you believe it?! I certainly can't. Already Part 3 of my travels has begun. But before I started with the new chapter, a quick flashback to a week ago, when I was still living the aussie dream... ASHES HISTORY... On a complete and utter whim, me and the girls decided it was time to stop watching so much damn TV and actually go watch some LIVE cricket. Within two hours we had hunted down tickets on Gumtree and I was m...