Menú del Día:We start with a spontaneous yet delicious backtrack surprise. Followed by a main of adventurous yet disorganised trips and flight failures served with a side of surprise. All refreshingly swished down with incredible scenery and a shed-load of whatever alcohol is cheapest.   So for the first time on my trip, I backtracked to... Continue Reading →

In what is likely my longest blog post yet (hence the delay of 23 years), I live a sample of the life people often dream of, meet two people who later become extremely close friends, learn something valuable about myself, have the worst dream of my life, get told that I should leave my profession... Continue Reading →

So you may have noticed I've been posting less and less frequently. I'm going to try and combat this by making the posts more succinct. So let's try going back to highlights, similar to how I wrote earlier posts. After leaving Montanita, hopefully for the last time, I headed for Cuenca. At this point I... Continue Reading →

We pick the perfect time to hit Banos, a small adventure town around the centre of Ecuador. It’s some kind of local election. And in some South American countries, including Ecuador, alcohol is banned to prevent violence in the streets. We try to find anywhere that will serve us a beer. We find one place,... Continue Reading →

I'm woken by the feeling of physical contact to my leg. Extremely confused and groggy, I instinctively resist whilst I try to understand what on earth is going on. I appear to be sat on a step on a well lit street corner. All I can hear is the muffled sound of nightclub music coming... Continue Reading →

We finally visit the much hyped coffee region of south Colombia. The coffee region is made up of a handful of different towns and cities, but, based on recommendations from other travellers (and of course ever-reliable internet blogs), we chose Jardin, Manizales, Salento and Filandia. A nice mix of city - high tourism vs small... Continue Reading →

Headline: Another few weeks living in Medellin - I play the best sport ever invented, mistakenly ask someone to cut my hair with his penis, hold a dead fish, actually learn some Spanish, cook badly, spend my first Xmas & NYE out of England, badly act out a Spanish telenova, abandon another walking tour, make... Continue Reading →

Once again I find myself back in Medellin. As I mentioned in my last post, I'd found a pretty cool volunteering opportunity which would allow me to live for free and have 95% of the day to myself, for up to a month - winner. So off I went, sadly leaving Cartagena behind, but ready... Continue Reading →

So after the slight mishap volunteering in Minca, I decided I “deserved” a break and instead of volunteering again, I should try out the tourist lifestyle for a while. So, off I went, into Minca town to find Wi-Fi to book my next move. As ever, it didn’t take long. I’d heard a plateful of... Continue Reading →