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...
I have to say group tours leave me a little cold – its often a bit like “ticking” off touristy must-dos, getting on and off buses, being deposited at shops full of the usual tourist tat and mixing with people who actually like that sort of stuff … Having said that,...
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...
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...
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...