As experiences go, re-meeting people on our journey is not something we considered or really planned for and when it […]
Tag Archive for ‘bus’
Greyhound buses; sleek, slim, slender and seamless or so we thought
When I was younger, much younger than today, I used to watch all those American movies of travellers making their […]
Bus rides that test your resolve and torment your inner being
I am sure many of us have experienced a bus ride or two from hell, or even just a bus […]
Winning a Nobel Peace Prize after getting a NO Vote
All of my Colombian friends have had the lives defined by over 50 years of violence between the government armed […]
An amazing journey and still one continent to go
Straw sea-going vessels, the taxi and a twenty-seven hour bus ride
A big part of our journey is navigating the various public and private transport systems around the world. Sometimes the […]
Discovering an Olympic spirit
Our visits to Rio straddled the greatest games on the planet, the Olympics and the Paralympics and the place was […]
Pao de Acucar or Sugar Loaf Mountain
This is one of those posts that does not really matter about the words I use to describe my feelings […]
Corcovado, an Art Deco Wonder of the World
Our previous trip to Rio was somewhat exciting with the robbery and attempted robbery, so this visit we were hoping for […]
Still trekking, step by step
Trujillo, somewhere in Peru today
into the strange 