It seems like months ago that I wrote the last blog in Santiago and when I think about what I’ve done in that time I can only really say I’ve done two things....sitting on buses and walking. It sounds rubbish and you might think why would anyone spend hundreds of pounds doing that?! The answer is Torres del Paine. It’s a National Park in Chilean Antarctica or Patagonia but we like the first because it has Antarctic in it!! It’s completely untouched and in...

I’m sat in a hostel in Santiago, Chile enjoying a nice cold Brahma after looking over the whole of the city from the mountain and walking round old cobbled streets with Spanish like buildings. My first impression of South America is that I’m going to love it. The people are incredibly friendly, it’s 26 degrees with clear blue sky and I don’t feel too hot, it’s amazingly diverse and for someone who doesn’t really like cities I love Santiago. We went ou...

The day we left Australia was quite a busy one....I had to get an x-ray done, pick up our cameras from Olympus, sort out selling our van, pack and finally drive to Sydney airport in our hire car before drinking a few beers and falling asleep in the car! When we landed in Christchurch we picked up our Ford Focus and had a wonder round town. Most people either hire a campervan and sleep in it, hire a car and sleep in hostels or go on the bus and sleep in hostels.....

Firstly, Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! It's been an unusual one for me, I hope you've all had a nice time just relaxing, eating and drinking into a stupor!Right, Australia...well the east coast! We arrived in Cairns on 3rd December with no transport but a plan to be in Sydney 3 weeks later for Christmas Eve. This meant despite having no sleep we hiked around Cairns all day looking for the oldest, cheapest, rust bucket we could find that had enou...

With one more day left in Asia I think it's time to round up my thoughts of the place and get ready for the free booze night flight to OZ!! As you all know Koh Phi Phi was heaven and it was going to be hard to beat, so Malaysia and Singapore may get a bit of an unfair overview, but I'll try to be objective. We left Phi Phi and got a bus to Krabi, a strange little coastal town with very little to do apart from eat cheap and that's what we did. The next morning we ...