IMPORTANT UPDATE...BOCA JUNIORS v RIVER PLATE, WE ARE GOING! Massively excited! Game starts Sat at 10pm, have to arrive 4 hours early to get a good standing place/avoid most riots. Hopefully all going well and we survive, pics up sunday! Big bummer that Riquelme isn't playiung as theres a flash match Argy vs USA this weekend but all the other players will be there. Vernons been stato central as you can imagine.. knows more about argentinian football than i know a...

ARGENTINA!!!!! Awesome to be here. The journey from Santiago to Mendoza was probably the most dramatic and breathtaking bus journey Í've ever been on, and thats saying something. There have been hair-raising non existant cliff roads in the mountains between northern Vietnam and Laos, and stunning coastal roads in Australia and good old Cornwall. But nothing compares to the Andes Mountains! We set off out of Santiago at around midday, beers and sandwiches at...

After leaving Santiago, the Mat and Vernon fiasco show continued. After a fantastic day of sightseeing in beautiful old Santiago, we headed west to Valparaiso via incredibly comfy bus. Two hours later we checked into a lovely old ´Residencial´. We decided to go wandering (my favourite past-time), and found ourselves walking through the streets of one the most colourful cities Í've ever been to. Every building was different to the previous, in colou...

Hello from Santiago, Chile. we arrived this morning/afternoon on sunday 20th. which is quite strange because we have already done sunday 20th in Australia!! crazy time change. the flight from Sydney was very long and cramped. we stopped at Auckland airport, New Zealand for about half an hour (add to countries i have visited?!) and then along the bottom of the pacific ocean. We arrived to clear blue skies and hot sunshine. The terrain is very different here, lots ...

So, back in Brisbane now after an eventful last week or so!! We flew up to the Whitsunday Coast, and checked into the Beaches Backpackers hostel, after meeting my Brother Josh at the bus stop in Airlie Beach. He had been there for a few weeks now, was great to see him! We pretty much got straight on the 'Goon' (cheap cask wine- love/hate relationship with the stuff) with the Irish girls and two Danish in our dorm, played some drinking games, then went out clubbin...