We went to Iguazu Falls today, wider than Niagara and the biggest waterfalls in the world measured by the volume of water. It was impressive...We re staying in a 'party' hostel out of town, although they dont seem to have organised any parties, there is a huge pool and plenty of beer. It seems like we ve spent ages travelling to get here as we worked our way up through Uruguay and stopped off at Porto Alegre (not a lot happens there and the fact that no one reall...

The last day in Buenos Aires and we ve both eaten our weight in steak this week. BA is the perfect antidote to the three week tour of Peru, with its fairly unnecessary wake up calls at 5am and long long bus journeys. We stayed in Milhouse hostel, which describes itself as a ´party´ hostel, and is full of loose moralled Irish women and agressive men weilding bottles of vodka. We did have fun though especially in the bar in happy hour. Ba has good nightlife and c...

So here's what you've all been waiting for! Anyway hello. We've spent most of our time in Lima now, we stayed for four days in Centro which is much maligned by the Lonely Planet but we believe incorrectly so, and now we're in Barranco which is called Bohemian in every tourist guide about Lima ever printed (possibly for alliterative purposes). In Centro we generally wandered round and ate very cheap food and took in a museum or two. The food is ridiculously chea...

We're still at home, t-minus 36 hours until lift off. Sarah's speaking Spanish I don't like it, hopefully we won't need it, I'm worried she'll make jokes about me in Spanish and then look triumphant, I'll try to look indignant and unmoved if she does that. We've also packed now, that was fun, though I've realised I didn't put socks in the shoes which seems like an elementary space management error. I'm going to go soon to cook a farewell paella with sarah, i hope...