So having survived our 13 and a half hour flight from Buenos Aires we arrived in Auckland somewhat unrefreshed early Sunday morning. Sunday was spent marvelling at how clean a city can be, how one can drink water from the tap, flush toilet paper down the loo, walk 2 minutes down the street and not [...]
What happened to Saturday the 9th of May?
by Peter on May 9, 2009 in Travel
Friedi and I checked in for our flight to New Zealand at 11pm on Friday, and we don’t arrive until 7am on Sunday!! I’m pretty sure the flight isn’t going to take 30 hours, so where did my Saturday go?!? To attempt to make up for apparently losing a whole day, i have scheduled this [...]
Colonia (Uruguay)
by Peter on May 8, 2009 in Travel, Uruguay
On Wednesday we visited our 7th country in South America. Colonia (Uruguay) is just an hours ferry ride across the river from Buenos Aires, so we thought it would make a good day trip. We visited a jam farm where the owner holds Guinness Records for the most pencils, keyrings, ashtrays and phone cards in [...]
111 hours by bus!
by Peter on May 4, 2009 in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Travel
We have covered a lot of distance in the last 4 months, most of it by bus. Starting at the equator, and criss crossing the Andes all the way down to Buenos Aires is a long way to go. I thought it might be interesting to work out just how long we have been sat [...]
Boca Juniors (ARG) 3 – Deportivo Táchira (VEN) 0
by Peter on May 1, 2009 in Argentina, Travel
Just got back from a great Boca game (Copa De Libertadores)! The stadium, supporters, atmosphere, performance, goals and the whole evening was just fantastic! Managed to get myself a Boca shirt before the game with Palermo (captain) on the back. He then went on to score his 199th and 200th (bicycle kick!) goals for the [...]

