We left our home in Cape Town some 366 days ago and are still trekking. Maybe some of you thought […]
Creating a nation of immigrants or are they expats?
Visiting the Immigration Museum on a wet rainy day in Buenos Aires at the other end of the city from […]
Campermate
Great app for finding campsite’s throughout New Zealand
Don’t cry for me Argentina: Evita
I did not realise that Juan Peron had been elected three times as President and was imprisoned by the military […]
The Hand of God is at it again
La Boca is the barrio (district) where the original settlers landed, but importantly today this is where Boca Juniors play […]
Crossing Los Andes at the front end of a big fast bus
We managed to get front seats up top, on our bus from Valparaiso to Mendoza, Argentina and what a great […]
Democratically elected Marxist Government, Junta or door number three
If only we had the power to turn back time and retain our knowledge…at the memorial museum that reconstructs quite […]
Viva Mapuche! Viva Mapuche!
I have fallen in love with learning about history again after many many years of just being interested, so learning […]
Seventy-eight different beds and counting
Getting a head of steam on the bus rides
Having made it in one piece travelling on Africa buses, Indian train chaos, Chinese taxi drivers and the crazy tuk-tuks of […]
