There I was, so focused on the spiders, snakes, cheetahs, leopards, tigers, lions, elephants, hippos, crocodiles and scorpions and I never even thought to ask about the caterpillars… All those big things simply divert your attention away from the real beasties that'll hurt you. Meet the hairy caterpillar. These look just like caterpillars but with, um…well. They dangle from trees on web, yes webs, and if you happen to brush past one it'll flop onto your shir...

We've just completed our full circuit of the globe! The plane journey from Honduras to home was happy in that we didn't have to go all the way to Lima to get home but sad as we reflected on being three quarters of the way through our trip, we've had some great experiences. A week in Scotland for me and a week in Bromyard for Eleanor followed by two days in London soon reminded us of how cold, pale, and tired we usually are. So, we resolved all of that by boardi...

I'm currently sitting on the open topped, blue wooden balcony of the dive school looking out at the rickety wooden pier next door where lots of excited looking divers have just returned on their boat. Eleanor is swinging in a hammock next to me and the sea is a turqoise blue. Today, it is nearly completely still. There are certainly worse places to be stuck due to ash clouds over the UK. When we first decided to come here, we did our usual research and conclud...

Flying on standby flights you must adhere to a certain dress code - business casual they say. Of course we have nothing of the sort in our dirty little backpacks. So...we had to buy stuff in Puerto Iguazu. To cut this long story short, this resulted in me having just got off a plane in Miami wearing particularly pointy, black, suede cowboy boots with full cuban heels. I seem to be fitting in just fine… We ended up spending a night at a nearby hotel before tra...

Following the fun of the Estancia we made our way on a 2 day trip back across the border to Argentina and, more specifically, Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil.The town itself is small, not a huge amount to look at but everyone is here to visit the waterfalls (Los Cataratas del Iguazu). The waterfalls are a group of 275 individual falls stretching along 2.7 kilometres of the Iguazu River. They're up to 82 metres in height, so they're pretty big...