by Jonathan Evans | Apr 14, 2010 | Colombia, South America
South Americans are not quiet people. The streets are filled with a mixture of shouting, traffic, the thud of a reggaeton track booming from a passing car, sirens and of course, the incessant beeping of car horns. When I lived in Europe and drove regularly, I have...
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 3, 2010 | Colombia, Food, South America
So, we’ve made it back to Colombia – in fact we’ve been back here for over a fortnight. It all started with a mammoth bus day from Otavalo in Ecuador, up to Ipiales where we crossed the border, followed by the worst bus journey so far, up to Popayan....
by Jonathan Evans | Mar 21, 2010 | General Travel
I remember reading once that in order to maintain reader interest, a blog should be updated at least 3 times a week. Well, you may have noticed that I’m not quite there! Since moving the blog from Vox to jontyjago.com I’ve wanted to write much more, but...
by Jonathan Evans | Mar 11, 2010 | Ecuador, General Travel, Peru, South America
Was watching the local news yesterday and was a little bit freaked out to see a brief item about a bus crash having killed 4 people here in Ecuador. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but what caught our attention was that the bus had come from the Peruvian...
by Jonathan Evans | Mar 11, 2010 | Ecuador, General Travel, South America
There are times when it simply just doesn’t work out. We got to Ecuador last Thursday and found a nice relaxing hostel in the historic centre. Friday we just mooched around, Saturday we took a trip up to the Cajas National Park which was beautiful – it...
