by Jonathan Evans | Apr 15, 2010 | Argentina, South America
This post was originally published in March 2009. Confused? I’ve spent the last couple of weeks back in Buenos Aires, not doing very much except wandering around, catching up with friends. And very nice it’s been too. The blog will go quiet for a month or...
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 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...
by Jonathan Evans | Mar 5, 2010 | Ecuador, South America
So, after a few puzzled frowns and huffing and puffing, Laura got stamped into Ecuador for the next 90 days which was a relief as the Peru-Ecuador border was not the nicest place I’ve ever been and I really didn’t fancy getting stuck there. In fact, in...
