Hi,It's been quite an adventure...On Saturday a bird flew into machinery of the incoming plane and had to be removed bit by bit and parts replaced on the plane before we could board. The two hour delay was too much for some Dublin bound party goers who had even more time to drink before getting on the plane. As they were a bit 'out of order' six women were ejected from the plane after we had boarded and their luggage had to be taken off causing furthe...

Hello again, Well this will hopefully be my last communication from foreign soil on this trip. I fly back home today and arrive back in Glasgow Tuesday 4th July at 1100 hours all being well after 40,00 miles of air travel. Am still to calculate the land miles but hope to in due course. Wanted to update you first of all on my activities since my last email a couple of weeks ago. After leaving Rio I spent 3 or 4 days in Salvador. This city has a populat...

Hello again, Have just spent the best part of a week in Brazil, a vast country as big as the USA. Given that I am only here for three weeks I'm hoping to get a flavour of it and still leave some time for scuba and sun in the last week. Am open to correction on some details of this country as I have a Brazilian friend Eduardo on my mailing list but here goes.... Arrived in Sao Paulo last Tuesday after a two hour flight from Buenos Aires. The plan was to get to ...

Hello again, Nearing the end of the trip and have left the penultimate country. I have been very busy this last week and hope to give you an update on the adventure. Due to having rushed out two emails last week to cover my arrival in Argentina and the trip to Uruguay there was a couple of things I missed off my first script from Argentina. First was that when I went to the Historical Museum in Buenos Aires it was an easy place to go round as all the exhibits h...

Hello again, Well if you thought my last mail was a bit short from Argentina, there was a reason. I have managed to sneak another country into the schedule this last week. Brazil was to be the 30th country to visit but Uruguay has pushed it into 31st place. I met a number of people on the road who suggested I take the short trip from Buenos Aires (BA) into Uruguay. My friend Nigel, whom I met in Santiago, came back into town on Thursday and we decided on a join...