Welcome to this weblog by Roy Jones. Here you'll find the diary of a backpacking trip through Latin America, musings on life, living as an expat in the Caribbean, as well as plans for a bicycle tour through Europe and beyond.


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Website Updates

I have just updated some of the sidebars so they are in drop down menus which I think is more aesthetically pleasing and it also is a little more functional rather than having to scroll down loads to get to the archives section. I also added some tabs onto the Route page, to which I [...]

Site Makeover

I am in the process of updating the site and making it look pretty as I think it needed a little tlc. Let me know your thoughts on the new layout.

Buenos Aires: Nocturnal

Day 145 – Saturday 11th February 2006 After getting in at 6.30am I decided not to spend another day wandering BsAs. Instead I had a little lay in, until about 2pm. When I eventually got up Martin was about to go play and play another game of 5-a-side and he invited me along again.

Antigua: Spanglish

Days 79 to 82 – Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th December 2005 I woke up feeling much improved from the previous day, so set about to look for a Spanish school and to see if Antigua was as fine a city as the guidebooks and other travellers had made out. I began walking about looking [...]

Flores: The Real Guatemala?

Day 61 – Saturday 19th November 2005 12 hours sleep sorted me out and I was ready to hit the streets & Guatemala had to offer. People who had travelled in the country had been raving about it when I had spoken to them so I wanted to see if it lived up to the [...]

Guadalajara: Festival Time

Day 26 – Saturday 16th October 2005 After waking up with my legs covered in mosquito bites I thought that spending nearly a week up and down the coast was enough for this stint, and I decided to head inland to Guadalajara. I caught the bus from Puerto Vallarta. I was the only passenger on [...]