I've been dreading the 'guest blog' spot ever since Rob was introduced to the concept back in November, but here goes…….I wasn't well disposed to Cusco having spent my first few hours in the city locked on a freezing bus, but it was impossible to resist the handsome and buzzy capital of the Incas.At the centre of the city is beautiful square dominated by one of the Conquisadors' fine cathedrals and - just as importantly, I believe- some very fine cafe...

Jos has been traveling with us for nearly a week and we have done the following: - stayed at a beach museum in Lima - watched the changing of the guards outside the Presidential Palace - flew to Arequipa and relaxed in its Plaza Mayor - slept in cavernous rooms made of volcanic stone - toured a citadel-style monastery - took a 6 hour bus ride on dirty economy bus to Puno - toured Lake Titicaca including the Uros floating islands and Taquile island ...

The road between Argentina and Chile west of Mendoza starts off being quite dull but within an hour starts to ascend steeply into the Andes under the shadow of 7000m mountains. It then winds its way through sheer valleys and along the side of chasms before descending sharply into the Chilean plain. It is a journey that is a tourist attraction itself or at least that is what we are told as we both slept through the lot. Our Kiwi friends were disgusted with us when...

I have grave concerns that you believe that we are drinking ourselves around the world.In fact, this is not true.Some days we hardly drink anything, occasionally we enjoy a refreshing beer or glass of wine and only a few (all too memorable) blowouts.I felt that this needed to be clarified before talking about our next destination - Mendoza, the wine capital of Argentina.Even though we have also visited vineyards in Australia and New Zealand we thought that since ...

The Argentinean lake district in the summer is an impressive complex of lakes and mountains which attract wealthy Argentines for hiking and biking. In the winter the same crowd returns for the excellent skiing and warm bars or restaurants to recuperate in. The first day in Bariloche (tourist centre of the lake district) gave us the opportunity to appreciate its glory in summer and winter through the beautiful photographs in our hostel while the rain pounded the w...