With almost seven months in South America, we made a pretty good effort at making our way around a lot of this vast continent. Our journey times increased hugely from Central America and the sights got a lot bigger: we had entered the mighty Andes region. Here are some of our thoughts and observations from the countries we visited. Colombia: One of our favourite countries (probably my - Katy's - top one), with lots of lovely, friendly and helpful people. Many pe...

We flew back from Iguazú to Buenos Aires; our last destination in South America. Because of this scary situation we had treated ourselves to a whole apartment - a first for us. The Airbnb apartment was located in San Telmo; a cool, arty area packed with Latin culture and antique shops. We were shown around the apartment by the owner's girlfriend and then took advantage of having our own space by... doing nothing. Although I found that I couldn't do this for long...

Our last long distance bus of our whole trip brought us to Buenos Aires in 19 hours. Despite having good seats we arrived feeling very unrefreshed as the air conditioning had been malfunctioning and had blown us with superheated air for parts of the journey. With the relief that we were done with buses we caught the metro to our hostel in the middle class suburb of Palermo and were glad that we could get into our room so early. In anticipation for eating huge qu...