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Day 13: Can’t Get Out That Way
Woke up in Mario's house. His family had been so accommodating, taking in a big ginger stray like me for the night and looking after me on my trip through…
Day 12: Not So Fast!
WOKE UP to the DEAFENING SOUND of a pirate copy of ‘Death Race' being played on the bus at MAXIMUM VOLUME. This continued until Jason Stratham got sacked from his…
Day 11: Mario and his Mum
Got to Bogotá yesterday, but there was barely enough time to pull my undies out of my backside before I was bang! on another overnight bus heading up to the…
Day 10: Plan Colombia
I think I'm about three days behind schedule now; I really need to make up some time in the Caribbean. Don't know how easy that is going to be, absolutely…
Day 9: Crossing The Equator
Okay - day of ACTION! Got up at some ungodly hour and rendered the podcast, got to the Internet café at 7.30am and uploaded it. Got to bookshop at 9am…
Day 8: A Taste of Quito
I flaked it. I should have been up with the lark and on a bus to the border, but I decided to have a day off. This decision is no…
Day 7: The Long Way Round
Got to the border bright and early this morning, and tried to find a bus to Quito, the capital of Ecuador. There was no central bus station, each coach operative…
Day 6: Shut Your Eyes And Hope For The Best
Got into Lima at 8am this morning. It was a rollercoaster ride last night, if you tried to stay awake it was just a non-stop cavalcade of terror as the…
Day 5: Bo Diddily Crazy
The maid was supposed to wake me at 6.30, but didn't. Luckily, by some miracle I woke up myself at 7am after clocking up a whole 3 hours of sleep.…
Day 4: Carry On Up The Andes
Arrived, shaken but not stirred, in Oruro, Bolivia. I felt the best course of action was to find out when the first bus for Chile left - 11.30am - and…