Finally! Nearly 2 days of pure travelling is over and has brought us to Tupiza in Bolivia. The first leg of the journey was 26 hours by bus to La Quiaca on the Argentine border. We stopped a few times at these random pockets of civilisation which punctuated the otherwise barren landscape, but other than that it was Spanish films, iPod and reading all the way and it went surprisingly quickly! We then crossed the border into Villazon on the Bolivian side and it b...

And so, a little over 4 years after I was last here I'm back in Mendoza, the famous wine region in Argentina! After arriving late on Wednesday we found a hostel and were gonna go straight to bed but ended up sharing a couple of bottles of wine whilst getting to know some people at the hostel together with the 2 owners Luke and Matias, who would turn out to be 2 of the nicest guys you could wish to meet. The highlight of Wednesday night was the fact that I had u...

Well here I am again - on the road doing a journal from somewhere half way round the world, and this will no doubt be the first of many!Sunday started off a really hard day as I had to say my final goodbyes at the airport before I began over a days travel by myself to Santiago via London and Sao Paulo. I actually got to Santiago 2 hours ahead of schedule as my original flight had been 'canceled', but sods law was that the girls had been delayed by the same length...

Well it's here - the moment to set off on the biggest trip yet has finally arrived. Sat at home waiting for the time to head to Manchester airport to come, anyone would have thought that I was going off to do something that I really didn't want to, such was the mood in the living room! It was more than a little strange feeling that I had inside, and that wasn't helped by the fact that despite having the last 2 weeks off to get myself geared up and ready, I en...