by Jonathan Evans | Jul 12, 2009 | US Trip
I love Bill Bryson. I really do. I read his first book, The Lost Continent, back in the mid-90s (I could actually tell you the month and year if I felt like it, I’m my Father’s son). It’s his story of driving round the US in his Mum’s car and I...
by Jonathan Evans | Jun 13, 2009 | Non-Travel
One thing about being abroad for a long while is you often get asked what you miss from home. Visitors from England coming to Geneva would always ask me what I would like them to bring me to remind me of Blighty. And it was always with slight embarassment that I would...
by Jonathan Evans | Jun 11, 2009 | Brasil, South America
Ok, so a little out of synch chronologically speaking, but hey, you get what you pay for right? And you’re not paying for it, so there you go. After Ilha Grande, we spent 4 days in Rio. Now, Rio is a must-see place, you can’t go to that part of Brasil and...
by Jonathan Evans | Jun 7, 2009 | Bolivia, South America
After Sucre, caught a good ole Bolivian bus and headed off to Uyuni, passing through Potosi (highest city in the world), getting to Uyuni at about 6 in the evening. Now, the phrase “the middle of nowhere” can be used to describe lots of places, but Uyuni...
by Jonathan Evans | May 23, 2009 | Argentina, Bolivia, South America
It’s hard to believe that I was only in Bolivia 10 days, but in that time I certainly managed to squeeze a lot in. The plan was to meet up with some of the people I’d shared the house with in Buenos Aires in Sucre, the constitutional capital of Bolivia....
