Robbie Mitchell

100 hours is the the time it took to get from Rio to Potosi. some brilliant planning. a 30 hour bus, meant to be 28, to the border which was closed at 2.30 in the afternoon, obviously! So we weren´t allowed into Boliva without an exit stamp from Brazil. 30 mins of illegal immigrant status later we were back in brazil for a night at a classicically lame border town. Got our stamp the next day so after watching Jenson win the F1 in a bolivain train station we got our over night train. Luckily it was our carriage whose electricity and air con broke for 3 hours, giving us another 2 hour delay by the time we reached Santa Cruz a little bit hot and cranky to say the least. 6 hours chill out time ... read more

¡Hola! Had a great time in the very busy B.A last week. spent 5 nights in the capital and loved everyone of them. whilst there the draw of the clubs and nightlife is a little stronger then the tourist attractions though did mange to mingle with the locals in the giant park which was a hive of activities with yoga roller hockey and some not so friendly park football to name a few! we managed to get a good look at the zoo though the not so great fences and resisted the urge to pedalo around the parks little lake and watched the world go by with a coffee at the saturday market in Palermo, a very happening area of B.A. Of course we manged to have a tour of the Boca Juniors stadium earlier in ... read more