In the morning we set off on a bus trip from Puno to La Paz Bolvia which totalled around 8-10 hours. The coaches were comfortable so it wasn’t as much of a chore as it sounds. It helps that all the bus rides are usually pretty scenic too and this was no exception. The first chal

The day after we got back from the Inca Trek we were due to join forces with another group from now until Santiago, Chile. Before all that though, I’d booked my first ever bungee jump for today, no relaxing for me, I was up and out (and very scared). I made my way to the office

It was an early pick up to fly into Cusco but the flight was great and the views were great. I managed to survive the drive to Cusco from the airport with the mental taxi driver thankfully and was met by a Tucan Travel guy. Hotel looked really decent and I had an orientation where the

I planned to tone down the walking a bit in the run up to meeting the others on the group trip, and with the small matter of a 4 day trek at altititude approaching. I went into downtown Lima for a bus tour to Sant Cristobal which is a large cross/shrine at the top of tthe cliff/mounta

Well, it finally arrived after waiting months but the run up to the trip wasn’t as peaceful or exciting as previous trips.  The main reasons being one, it was a group tour in the main so needed less planning and two, I’d agreed to go back to work for the same client on my

My folks were due to come to Birmingham on a weekend and I was casually browsing the airlines as I do when I am bored.   I saw that Dublin return flights were cheap as chips from Birmingham weekend so we booked up. It was my 3rd time to Dublin and each time the accommodation gets more

This is the first time in 5 or 6 years I was due to be in the country for my birthday, so my folks were taking the opportunity to come up for the bank holiday weekend.  I couldn’t face just going shopping in the Bullring etc so I booked up for us all to go to Bratislava, Slovaki

Friday was a bit of a lazy day to be honest.  I dragged myself out for breakfast about 7am then only again around midday when I went for a wander to Eau Claire Market.  I grabbed a smoothie and got very tempted to make an outrageous purchase or two there, but it didn’t meet an i

Fair to say from Friday last week work was a bit crazy with a particularly nasty service issue gobbling up my weekend.  It was so messy I did not want to throw my stand-in under the bus so I didn’t take the day of the flight off in the end and ended up working from the Premier I

It was a sad day today, having to say goodbye to NYC again and get back to the UK (and the midnight – 3am Islanders games).  I did a little bit of shopping this morning and went to Junior’s Brooklyn which was the first Junior’s (1965) for some of their famous cheesec