Costa Rica time! Sorry it's taken so long, blog fatigue has been setting in (along with everything else fatigue). I think many people must have had similar negative experiences on arriving in San Jose. We came to Costa Rica with an image in our heads of a beautiful place but the capital does really disappoint. It's grey, run down, a bit scary and the first day we got there it rained for 5 hours (ok so it is the rainy season but that's too far). Needless to s...

So we're at the end of our 2 months in South America. We kind of didn't specifically plan to spend almost half our trip on this continent it just turned out like that with volunteering and everything but I'm glad we did. It is a truly incredible place, the people are nice and the culture is fascinating. Starting in BA was really good as well as it broke us in slowly with a slightly more European city, the differences that we can see now between BA and say La Paz ...

Right guys, I've been meaning to do this for ages. Metro systems have played a big part in our travelling (less so now but hey) as we've used them in Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney and Buenos Aires and I feel they show a glimpse of the country's (or city's) culture and psyche. We started in Moscow where the Metro is truly stunning. Probably the deepest undergound out of all of them (means it's warm) and pretty old too it had trains every couple of...

So almost 2 weeks since leaving BA and we have spent quite a lot of time on buses, or it feels like that at least! First we had the 20hr bus to Iguazu which now seems really luxurious as we got proper meals and drinks and stuff, pretty much like an aeroplane. We did splash out slightly and go for almost full 'cama' but was probably worth it. Then from Iguazu we wanted to get to Bolivia which is no mean feat. We headed for Salta in 2 buses so all together about ...

Hey guys. Well, where to start, I thought that these 4 weeks would be a proper opportunity to relax and chill out but it seems our personalities do not allow us to do that too much, we've still managed to be quite busy, hence the lateness of this blog. We're volunteering. That's the main reason for spending so long here so I'll start with that. We're doing it through an organisation called Voluntario Global (check out the website http://www.voluntarioglobal.org...