Peru & home Colca Canyon I left Copacabana early on the 13th April and despite the Puruvian border official doing his best not to let me in, was soon in Peru and on my way to Arequipa. Switched buses in Puno, and on the second bus I spotted Dennis, a Swiss dude who was in my group hurtling down Death Road. We were both heading to Colca Canyon and both wanted to avoid getting on an organised tour, so we started formulating a plan how we could go off on...

Bolivia Villazon - Tupiza Stepped off the bus, early on the morning of 22nd March, into the biting cold of the typically dusty border town of La Quica, from where we crossed the border to Villazon. We weren't used to this temperature and immediately donned as many layers as possible. As the sun rose the day warmed up though and after a few hours it was shorts and vest weather. The differences between Bolivia and where we'd come from were immediate - the pe...

Buenos Aires I arrived in BA on 27th Feb after an overnight bus trip from Chile. The first thing I heard was the news about the earthquake that I'd just missed in Chile - it all happened as I was on the bus out of there… Pretty fortunate as I was thinking of visiting the epicenter prior to the quake, and I'd visited a number of places that were also badly hit shortly beforehand. But life's full of misses and maybes like that…I hoped that the people I'd...

Currently sitting in a battered 'internet café' which is effectively the backroom of a small rundown newsagent in an industrial part of Tucuman, Argentina, where the weather's sh*te and the girls aren't as pretty. The lights don't work, the toilet stinks and the clunking fan above sounds as though it may fall on me any minute. Didn't plan to stop in Tucuman but there was no bus for hours to Cafayate where I'll eventually get to later today. To make matters worse...

Australia I arrived in Sydney early on Feb 2nd after a nice, if slightly random, flight in with Qantas. They seem to be doing their bit to counter age discrimination…one air stewardess in particular looked like Madge from Dame Edna´s Neighbourhood watch...who´s now dead I hear. I did indeed have my concerns whether this lady was going to hold out for the flight… Anyway, they brought me plenty of food and drink so no complaints there. Stepping off the plan...