It´s taken me 2 and a half weeks to get round to this, but finally the promised blog is underway! As I write I´m sitting in my hostel in Córdoba, Northwest Argentina, but rather than giving a blow by blow account of my journey to get here, I think it will be significantly less painful if I write something more akin to a highlight reel of the past two weeks. So here goes! The first stop on my South American itinerary was Caracas, Venezuela, a city somewhat preceded by its insalubrious reputation. Most of the reading I had done was full of warnings to be on my guard at every turn, to sleep with one eye open and the like. Initially I wrote this off as nothing more than the usual over-cautious travel writing to which
... read more