Monday, 29 April 2013
Episode 15: Sailing around the Darien Gap
Hola amigos! We’ve finally made it to South America! We’re here relaxing in the beautiful city of Medellin, in Colombia, lounging by the pool and wondering whether we’ll have another empan...
Sunday, 28 April 2013
San Cristobel to Palenque
We left yesterday morning and made our way to Palenque, a cracking road with excellent scenery spoiled by the speed bumps, several times they caught me unaware and had me out the seat, they even have them on corners. En route we stopped to speak to f...
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Leaving Guatemala into Mexico
Yesterday we left Antiqua, in the process of doing so we bumped into Julio, a well known Austrian who has lived in Guatemala for a long time, it was a fortuitous meeting as he was able to give us loads of advice on Mexico and in doing so saved us a l...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Antigua
We have been enjoying a couple of days rest here in the pretty Colonial town of Antigua, time to catch up on the admin, organise insurance for Mexico and do some forward planning, it isn't all riding bikes you know!
Antigua has been destroyed twice ...
Antigua has been destroyed twice ...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Four Days to Sicily
The next morning we say a long farewell to our host Lucia, who’s parting gifts...
Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador now Guatemala
As you can see from the title we have been busy suffering Central America's notorious border crossings, first let me say that technically they aren't difficult but the standing around in full bike gear sweating more than in a sauna in 40 Degree heat ...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Granada, Nicaragua
We crossed the border from Costa Rica to Nicaragua in just under two hours, two hours of doing waterfall impersonations, the sweat pouring out of me. We used a fixer which speeded the process up a little and in my opinion $10 well spent! The taxes an...
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
The Ghosts of Vesuvius and Amalfis Winding Road
The self-inflicted pain of the morning eases as we ri...
Monday, 15 April 2013
Snakes, Frogs scary spider!
We left Punta Arenas and headed inland to Lake Arenal, a really nice part of Costa Rica and a few degrees cooler which was good. Stunning road around the Lake and some ripio to keep our hand in. The Cabana we stopped in was nice but the smell from th...
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Costa Rica , Hot hot hot
We entered Costa Rica with a relatively quick border crossing, it was though very hot and humid, some minor holdup as the guya questioned my temporary import document as it had an estimated leaving date the same day as I entered , just what you don't...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
All Roads Lead to the Moon Episode 7 (Colombia)
Today we head to the Border to Costa Rica, We have enjoyed our time in Panama, its been laid back with great weather, meanwhile a recap on Colombia
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Boquete
Yesterday we said goodbye to our new friends Dan & Sara and headed with Gianni to Boquete, a small and very nice town just in the mountains above David (the town, not the person!) Before we left though a visitor in our room, a scorpion, obviousl...
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Mexico Rocks
After finishing two days of volunteering workshops at Centro de Espranza Oaxaca Grassroots Infantil that we were leading on geography and ...
Lazing around in Panama
We left the hussle of Panama City yesterday, really congested , so much so it took us an hour to escape the clutches of the metropolis and head out to the highway. Another really hot day as we headed just north of Santiago to a nice "Eco Hotel" We st...
Saturday, 6 April 2013
Hellions and the Cats of Gaeta
We’ve been told that the route south of Rome will begin to show a different kind of ...
Goodbye Colombia, hello Panama
It was with a certain amount of sadness we left Colombia and of course the South American Continent, South America has been fantastic, Colombia the jewel in the crown, We were lucky enough to stay at the Habitel Hotel where the concierge Eliana was e...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Bogota
We left Salento at 8 am on Monday morning and glad to say the small road back to the highway was empty, remember this is the road that took over an hour to do two miles on Friday, we had good directions from Edward from the Plantation hostel (well re...
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