The Supermarket of South America
We’ve picked up a bad habit of crossing borders by taxi. Well, we’ve done it twice now. I know it’s a bit decadent and kind of cheating but it’s so much easier. Especially with the […]
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Wildlife and Waterfalls in Iguazu
It’s been a bit of hard travelling to get from the bottom of Uruguay to the top of Argentina – part exhilaration, part tedium and part comedy of errors. There were some painfully long bus […]
Montevideo – Take 2
Back in Montevideo, Uruguay, I’m trying to get my head around this intriguing city. We were going to stay in the amazing but unsettling Palacio Salvo again but (much to my relief) it was unavailable. […]
Holiday in Uruguay
Public holidays like Christmas and New Year just get in the way when you’re on the road. Everything shuts down at inconvenient times and you run the risk of finding yourself stuck in a ghost […]
Montevideo, So Wonderfully Strange
We caught the early morning ferry across the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) from Buenos Aires to Uruguay. The ‘river’ is huge – the widest in the world at 220km – but there is […]
Hot and Steamy in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a city that makes you go ‘wow’, a place you can fall in love with at first sight. It’s hot and steamy and the architecture is truly incredible. Massive, soaring, majestic buildings, […]
Down and up in Santiago and Chillan
I’d forgotten that thing about travelling – how most experiences are incredibly awesome but there’s always some that are totally shit. We hit our first bad patch in Santiago, Chile. Staying in a housing commission […]
Adventurous Hermit 