Grand ol' world tour

The Navimag cargo ferry, our home for five nights and the best fun you can have on a ship loaded with cargo trucks, cows and sea-sick passengers. Travelling on the first trip of the high season meant that the boat was only a third full. Which was exc...

 

A Short History of Toilets in South American

Villa de Leiva proved well worth the 4.5 hour bus ride to and from Bogota. This picturesque hilltop 16th-century village was declared a National Monument in 1954, so any furhter development on the 400 year old site must be carried out in the colonial ...

 

South America II: Peru, Colombia, Venezuela July - October 2006

Arrived in Huaraz at 11pm from Lima to find ourselves amidst a street party for Huaraz´s 149th birthday. Accomm was very scarce but we (eventually) found a room at Landauro Hostal and then joined the dancing in the street to a live band on a huge ...

 

World Backpacking Trip (Part 1) - South America & USA 2005 / 2006

24th December 2005 I met Gabriela for lunch and after we went Christmas shopping which was easier than yesterday because she knew somewhere that was less busy so of course less people begging. I find this side of things very difficult. By the ti...

 

Inside the Colombian Vortex

My first airplane ride since 1998 and I'm now stuck in 9/11's narrower groove. You pay now for your crappy meals in a fearful world of anxious gloom here in SF as the terror-o-meter blinks this melodic orange alert. Hip-hop and chit-chat...this is a...