Bolivians love a good protest. You can´t always tell if there´s a specific cause - the main differentiator between a protest and the normal street scene is the ratio of cars to people. The noise, colour and general madness remain the same, but if the volume of people outweighs the volume of cars, you can conclude two things. Firstly, it´s a protest and secondly, you ain´t going anyway fast my friend. This second conclusion is pretty self-evident, because i...

I´m a mere half man. I´d reached that conclusion well before I wound up operation mega beard, watching Inca Trail porters tie half their bodyweight to their backs before jogging past us at 4000m above sea level, but the lack of fuzz to hide my shame behind is a concern. Hi All, we´re back from the truly phenomenal experience of walking the Inca Trail up to Machu Picchu. Will try to keep superlatives to a minimum but it was brilliant. You can take the tra...

Peruvian taxi drivers have much nicer vehicles than their Panamanian cousins, but you´d never know it. Clearly the horn should be used more than the steering wheel, unless on a three lane carriageway in which case random acts of wheel turning are derigeur, but my they have some extra tricks up their sleeves. And they are wearing sleeves, because gosh we´ve found a bit of a temperature change - this blog is being typed in a wooly hat no less.Before anyone jump...

It's been a while since the last blog, but we've got a good excuse, honest. Well, it's a ruddy brilliant excuse from our perspective, but you might want to skip this blog if you're sick of hearing about how we've had Caribbean islands to ourselves etc. Just look at the pretty pictures of the deserted beaches instead, that'll help. Or read the bit about mosquitoes if you're feeling less charitable. So, leaving the cool of the cloud forests behind (you can tell ...

In Guatemala, they speed up to get potholes out the way as quick as possible. Costa Rican drivers on the other hand, slow down. Whilst hardly a poignant observation, it does highlight that the concept of customer service has been introduced here. As has ferocious captalism; you need to be ready to have your tourist dollar milked. Anyway, hello from America's beach. We've left Spanish school and the Guatemalans behind and jetted down to Costa Rica. Which is ...