Richard and Jolanda – our journey

Day 271: Adios South America – it’s been great . . .

Well, New Year’s Day has come and gone. We are now at Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Airport about to our board our flight out of South America and on to New Zealand (but more on that later . . .) Admittedly we really only scratched the surface of...

Days 223 to 226: Cusco and the incredible Jolanda van den Berg

It was a 120km and 600m ascent from Ollantaytambo to Cusco, which means we are now at 3,400m above sea level. As a comparative – New Zealand’s highest ski resort Turoa and Europe’s highest ski resort Val Thorens both sit at around 2,300m. So here we are...

Days 216 to 222: Arrival in Peru – Lima and Ollantaytambo . . .

It was with some excitement that we landed in Peru on Wednesday November 8th, 216 days after leaving Wellington on our big adventure. Travelling to South America has been a dream of Jolanda’s for a long time and so it was natural that this massive continent would...

Days 149 to 157: Finding the quietness of Ibiza

It was of some comfort to learn that Nostradamus predicted that Ibiza is the place to be when the world ends. If anyone is reading this, Kim Jong Un hopefully hasn’t yet provoked a global nuclear war and you are all ok. Scary stuff alright . . . In any case, the...