Days 210 & 211 – Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th April 2006 I got up early to watch Spurs and Man Utd, but wish I hadn’t bothered. Afterwards got to take the piss out of the Swedes who had left the following day but had to return as they had no money and there were [...]

Days 198 & 199 – Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th April 2006 After arriving in Potosi at 2am and having to search around for a place to kip, we slept in a bit. First it was a stop in a Salteña restuarant where we hungrily devoured two of the cornish pasty type treats, before we [...]

Day 177 – Wednesday 15th March 2006 Mendoza is the wine capital of Argentina and the 8th largest wine producing region in the world. Therefore a big activity for tourists in the area is to visit a vineyard, take a tour to see how it is made and of course to sample some of the [...]

Day 167 – Sunday 5th March 2006 A pretty quiet day all in all, my hostel was a decent place for just hanging out and doing nothing, so I took full adavantage and had a lazy Sunday. most of it was spend chatting to the English folk in front of the TV, before we headed [...]

Day 133 – Monday 30th January 2006 No visit to Panama City would be complete without seeing the very thing that the country is famous for. Stretching 50 miles from Panama City to Colon, across the narrowest point in Central America, the Panama Canal was completed in 1914 at a cost of approximately $375 million.

Day 101 – Thursday 29th December 2005 After a night of disturbed sleep due to the poor location of the dormitory, it was a slow start to the day and everyone was tired. The one redeeming feature of the hostel was the excellent hot shower which was definately one of the better showers in Guatemala.

Days 76 & 77 – Sunday 4th & Monday 5th December 2005 In order to gain my scuba diving accreditation from PADI I needed to complete 4 dives, whilst carrying out a viariety of different skills on each dive. I wont bore you with what these were, but suffice to say none of these were [...]

Day 70 – Monday 28th November 2005 I wanted to get a few things done in the morning before catching the chicken bus to Panajachel in the afternoon. After spending another night huddled up trying to stay warm, one of those things was to purchase some warmer clothing. I had woken up before the shops [...]

Days 59 & 60 – 17th November & 18th November 2005 I woke up on Thursday with the intention of sitting on the beach all day, then using the internet during the early part of the evening before catching an overnight bus to Chetumal, through Belize to Flores in Guatemala. The plan began well, I [...]

Day 41 – Sunday 30th October 2005 Sunday is musuem day. The supposed biggest and best museum in Mexico City is the musuem of anthropology, so thats where I went first! After catching the Metro over there I got off and walked through the Basque de Chapultepec, Mexico City’s largest park.