Daniel and I got a room in a hostel together and then looked around to book ourselves onto a jungle trip. We wanted to go on a really cheap trip so we went rogue and just hired a guide to…
Cycling the world’s most dangerous road in Bolivia
There are some highly dubious tourist attractions in South America as you will have gathered by now, and that is especially the case in Bolivia. The first of these attractions is the San Pedro prison in the centre of La…
The secret statues and tombs of San Agustin and Tierradentro in Colombia
Popayan Popayan is situated in the Valle de Pubenza and it is known as the La Ciudad Blanca (the White City). It is an enjoyable place to walk around, with cobbled streets, leafy parks and pavement cafes. My bus dropped…
Wandering the battlefields of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was on the 18th June 1815 and it was the fight that ended French Emperor Napoleon’s European Empire through military dictatorship. There were 250,000 soldiers from seven nations involved in the horrendous battle, one of the…
Fooling around during flooding in Florianopolis
We got stamped into Brazil at the border office and then we walked in the dark to find a bus stop. Steph was not very subtly shitting herself at this point and hiding her valuables in different crevices of her…
Kitschy fun on Salzburg’s ‘The Sound of Music’ tour
Salzburg was definitely the highlight of Austria for me, and that is because the hills were alive with the Sound of Music. We visited Mozart’s birthplace (gerburtshaus) which is in the historical centre. He was born in the house in…