Hanging out with Trevor in Arica Last night I met Trevor. He's Australian, 30 and has been travelling alone for the best part of a year. He's been EVERYWHERE and has an abundance of advice, good and bad, about Chile and generally the whole of South America. He has the same opinion as me that he LOVES Chile and was so glad to get out of Peru. I know you're all gonna say WHAT???? but I completely trusted this guy from the start so when he said he was going to ...

First Border CrossingI'm now in a whole other country! That means whole other money to get used to! I decided to forget the cui as it was the only thing keeping me in Peru. So I left my hotel, got to the bus station and was about to pay the 35p compulsary tax when I realised I couldn't get into my rucksack to get my purse. It was padlocked and the key was in my purse INSIDE!!! Don't ask! I'd researched for months ahead about locks and knew there was no way in...