Good Morning Chicos It is so hot here I could puke. We are in Granada, Nicaragua and I’m wowing the locals with my un-bronzed un-Adonis like physique. Not long before we left to go travelling (holiday) I met someone who said, “oh wow you’re going travelling, you are going to lose so much weight.” Right, I’ve just met you and you have already made your mind up that I am a bit flabby. But as it turns out this judgemental bint was correct. We are 4 months in to the day and I have in fact lost a fair bit of timber. This has not however been through choice (or exercise) but the fact that about 3 weeks ago I found out that I had a parasite living happily in my stomach which we reckon had ... read more

Ey up Chicos We are sat in the food court in Lima airport outside Manos Morenas and Parados Chicken awaiting our flight to Guatemala which leaves in about 4 hours. We’ve already been here about 2 hours and I’ve eaten half a chicken and I feel a bit sick. There’s a man on the table next to me who keeps looking at me and looks the spit of Dustin Hoffman with a jerry curl, sporting the biggest bumbag I’ve ever seen. We’ve been travelling for 3 days to get here and we arrive tomorrow morning into Guatemala City about 8am where we will be promptly picking up a bus to Antigua, as we understand that Guatemala City is quite the crapiest of holes. Our journey to get here has taken us one day by boat from ... read more

Ey up Gringos We are sat in a courtyard of our new hostel in Cochabamba in Bolivia, enjoying our second breakfast of the day whilst listening to ‘Now Thats What I Call Power Ballards’. Judith is reading her second book of the trip. The book I brought is still unopened in my rucksack. Even though I don’t read I thought I’d bring the thickest book I could find just to carry it about for a year for a laugh. The copies of Viz and Total Film I brought are pretty well thumbed by now though, so I should probably learn to read and start my book. We arrived this morning at 6am after a surprisingly pleasant 9 hour bus journey from Potosi, Bolivia. Despite the comfort of the bus journey and the classy dubbed film (XXX ... read more