We overslept and set off a bit too late but we crossed the border without any problems and immediately liked Bolivia. For a border town it was quite nice. We had missed the morning bus to Potosi but took the opportunity to get the afternoon train to Tupiza, and from there we could get a night bus to Potosi. As it was still quite early when we crossed the border, people were setting up their stalls and shops and it just seemed quite relaxed. There were lots of wo...

I´m picking this up back in BA after taking a circuit through Northern Argentina, Southern Bolivia and Paraguay with a last stop at the Iguazu Falls. It was a great month or so. Took some great photos of all that we saw and met along the way but my bag got nicked on arrival in BA and I lost pretty much everything. I had my money belt in there so I lost all my back-ups of music and photos and my passport. Doh! Earlier in the year I made a top ten list of things t...

We arrived in San Telmo, Buenos Aires just after lunch on Monday, and we went straight to our language school, having nowhere to stay anyway. I went straight into my lessons while Lawrence had the job of sorting out our accommodation. It turned out great. We had previously arranged a home stay but the person we were staying with broke their leg a few days ago. So the school helped us find Susana, who lived in the same building as the school. The building was ama...

We arrived in Sao Paulo as the sun was going down and the city was cast in a beautiful orange but we couldn't appreciate it because we'd been messing around on the subway for about an hour and half trying to go two stops. It was three hours after we arrived when we finally trudged into the hostel, exhausted. After checking into our first private room in what felt like weeks we headed up to the bar for a beer and x-burger. Then we noticed the Pisco, and with the B...

Having a blast in Buenos Aires. But first we still have a few weeks worth of catching up to do blog wise. Em previously mentioned the bus journey down from Salvador. It pretty much put us on the back foot for the first few days in Rio but we pushed on through with my cold, and the awful hostel, and on the first morning we got ourselves down to Copacabana beach. It was a Sunday so the beach was too busy - hundreds and thousands of people crammed in the b...