You left us in Santa Cruz in the east of Bolivia. It´s a bustling metropolis where American cultural influence is quite apparent. Only 10 years ago it was still a regional town. However, it has now grown bigger than La Paz. The hotel that we chose proved to be our saviour. Hotel Globetrotter is an oasis of calm in the surrounding maelstrom. The proprietor used to work for the Scandie airline SAS. He had travelled throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world, picking up five languages on the way. The name Globetrotter came from an old SAS offshoot [View Full Entry]

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We´ve travelled about 3000km since Buenos Aires over six days. Tired is not the word... First, the trip to the Andean northwest of Argentina. I think that we may have mislead you a little. The bus journey to Salta was only 18 hours, not the 22 promised. Also, we have to admit that we travelled premium class. Well, it was only 4 GBP more than standard class and once we saw a picture of leather seats that reclined all the way to flat it was a sealed deal. It was the most comfortable coach I have ever been on. Eight hours [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday was the first day of our trip and also happened to be the first day of spring in Argentina. We had only just left our hotel when a kindly old gent (the local cobbler) handed Suse a red carnation, which felt like a warm welcome to life in South America. Every self respecting girl in Buenos Aires was proudly clutching a flower and all the chaps were rushing to the nearest stall to buy flowers for their ladies. The secondry school kids all got the day off and filled the parks along Avenida del Libertador listening to music and sunbathing. [View Full Entry]

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