The Samba Boys carry on their merry way through to the 2nd round of the World Cup. Brazil is calling me back again…
Category: South America
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Still on the World Cup theme, Paraguay play Italy on Monday night. This picture was taken at dawn in the Paraguayan Chaco.
Postscript…Rio
(yes, this has been sitting in my drafts folder for weeks) Sometimes you see an iconic image so often that it takes away the surprise of arriving somewhere new, but not this time. Just five brief hours to spend in the centre of Rio and already I’m wishing I could stay, enchanted by the skyline…
Palermo Soho
I loved Palermo Soho and happily wandered off a couple of times without J to explore the streets. I overheard someone comparing it to Tribeca in New York though I can’t say how accurate that is having never made it there. What I found interesting from a visual point of view is the way in…
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires wasn’t an amazing city for me, but I think we didn’t really have enough time to discover it properly, or even see all the things I wanted to.* We only had two full days and spent half a day taking the boat over to pretty Colonia in Uruguay. Which meant we missed out…
A different side to the mountains
Mendoza is a desert city but is very green thanks to the irrigation channels which run alongside the roads (I wondered if the combination of wine capital and deep gutters results in the odd UDI). It was very pleasant with wide shady streets and plazas, but unremarkable, for me at least. Another beautiful setting with…
Perfect
Yesterday was an amazing day, one of those rare days when eveything seems to come together to create an unforgettable experience. I can remember every detail, from A trying to get me to sing along to Bob Marley to the first sight of the Salinas. Snaking our way up the Cuesta del Lipan, each corner…
All around Jujuy
Catching sight of the Andes for the first time after a long journey from Resistencia was something that will stay with me for a long time. We spent nearly four days in the Jujuy region and I could easily have stayed many more. There was something really special about this area, a different character to…
50 hours on buses
All long-distance buses are not the same. Having read various things about the comfy seats which almost fully recline (in cama at least), bingo and films I was quite optimistic when we arrived in Resistencia to catch our first overnight bus all the way up to Jujuy in northwest Argentina. Here’s a tip for free…if…
We’re not in Kansas anymore
There was something of a surreal edge to our time in Paraguay. The Brazil/Paraguay border lies across a bridge from Foz to Ciudad del Este, and was the one border I was worried about crossing. Possibly the shabbiest-looking official border offices so far – a million miles from the shiny new offices at the Venezuelan…