We arrived in Quito on a rainy afternoon, we only had that evening to check it out because we were headed for the galapagos the next day. Lots of action happening in the streets because the south American football cup was on, Chilean team vs an Ecuadorean team. We wondered around the old town and then headed to the new town area to check out the bars and cheer on Ecuador, unfortunately they lost. Headed to our ultimate destination the next day, the Galapagos. Qu...

Colombia Get a beverage and some Tim Tams  if you plan on reading this edition.... Lots to report on our 2 weeks in Colombia. Rain greeted us when we arrived in cartagena following our 30 hour boat journey from San Blas, but colombian immigration officials did not, which was a little unusual entering a country without any formal permission. The paperwork for immigration was completed in somewhere unknown to us,  and all we had to do was hand over our passport...

Panama.... Yet another early morning to travel from CostaRica to Panama. I awoke to find my thongs had been stolen right outside our door. Silly me for leaving them there, but who steals thongs, really! So the morning had started well! The bus trip would have been seamless had we not had an Irish girl that had forgotten her phone. Luckily some of her travelling companions had stayed behind in costa rica and could pick the phone up for her. What I loved most, was...

Costa Rica.... Our travel day from Nicaragua to Costa Rica didn't start well when the lady who booked our international bus ticket was waiting for us at the highway pickup point because she stuffed up our booking. Her stuff up meant we were sitting at opposite ends of the bus, which was completely full and the AC was broken. Edwina took charge of the situation though and asked the second biggest guy on the bus who she was sitting next to, to move and sit in my s...

Nicaragua Early morning start from el Tunco in el Salvador to catch a bus to Nicaragua. Also felt a wee bit dubious because we had to leave from el Tunco in a taxi at 3.45am to meet the bus in San Salvador at 5am, probably not the safest place at that time of the morning, to make it worse we arrived early and the bus station was closed, so we were dropped off in the street to fend for ourselves! All good nothing happened. We hopped on our 12 hour bus and off to ...