The capital, well its fairly big i suppose. a bit over a million live here but its certainly not up to much. they still have horse and cart collecting rubbish, int eh cirrty centre and buildings are clearly very dates. apparantly montevideo was built on teh beef boom of the 50s which clearly shows.we had two nights here, thrusday and friday. as you can imagine there isnt a great deal of nightlife but as it runed out we had a couple fo good nights. during treh fir...

Arrived in Colonia by boat. Its just across the river chanel from Argentina, but since its the mouth its pretty wid and is about an hor by boat. very strange little town, Colonia is a very appropriate name. i dont think anything hasdchanged since the colonial days. very pretty but so so quiet...until we arrived. basically, trhere is nothing at all to do in this town so we went for lunch as a group and then the guide pretty much said the only thing to do is hir g...

Since i sat in the seat first and andrew will tell you im too fat to move, ienjoyed the andes as we flew over. the reasoning for this being fair is that andrew saw the same thing on hisd plane over from sau paulo and he fell asleep before the plane started taxiing and didint wake up unil we?d landed.stunning plane journey, because the mountains are so high you can see the white peaks and rolling mountaisns the whole time and then it suddenly falls into flat dark ...

Since i crossed the date line i landed in Santiago after a 12 hour flight before id set off which was a bit strange, it made wednesday a 40hr day i think it was. id forgotten slash coudltn be bothered to fill the immigration cards in on teh plane so had to do them when i got to customs. there was no queue so i went to the table before hand in the hope id make it while there was still no obne there. not the case, i reckon 6-10 jumbo jets landed just after me and i...

we'd been given until 1pm to drop the van off in auckland, washed and cleaned before we would be charged a tenner per hour. we got there just befopre one so it was a little after by teh time we'd run her through teh car wash. the map we'd been given for the depot was pretty much non existent and we had no idea where we were going. its a bigish city i would say by world standards but massive in NZ standards. more than 1/3 of the entire population live here so its ...