by Jonathan Evans | Apr 26, 2010 | Ecuador, Photos, PotD, South America
What’s This? Just north of Quito, Ecuador is La Mitad del Mundo, the Middle of the Earth which allows you to mess about and take lots of pictures, like this one. As you look at the picture, the Northern hemisphere is on the left and the Southern hemisphere on...
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 24, 2010 | Colombia, Food, Photos, South America
What’s This? Lunch in Colombia. That’s fried egg, rice, beans, avocado, fried mature plantain, sausage, ground beef, chicken and deep-fried pork rind. What you want me to say – it’s wonderful.
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 20, 2010 | Argentina, South America
If there’s one way of impressing somebody who has never been to South America before, it’s by saying, “Oh I’m going to such and such tomorrow, it’s a 20 hour bus ride”. To someone who has been here before then all you’ll get...
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 19, 2010 | Peru, South America
This post was originally published in May 2009 Confused? Many times on my travels I’ve found myself in a well-known place that I somehow never imagined I would get to. Uruguay, Tierra del Fuego, Rio and blow me if I haven’t added and crossed off another...
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 18, 2010 | Argentina, Chile, South America
This post was originally published in March 2009 Confused? During one of my moments of meditation sitting staring at the cruise ship (seriously, just how do those things float?) I decided that I was going to head back to Buenos Aires for a variety of reasons. Send me...
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 17, 2010 | Argentina, Brasil, Food, General Travel, Peru, South America
One of the joys of travelling in a country where they don’t speak your language is that occasionally you’ll come across a name that has one meaning for the locals and another entirely for you. And you can take a picture and giggle at the crazy foreign...
