Beaumonts

Can you believe it....how 6 months have flown by...... So we made it to Brazil and had a few days at the beach in Paraty, the place was really quaint and they obviously knew how important the Beaumonts’ are as they had flags up on the cute cobbled streets, fireworks at night and a real fiesta atmosphere – even dancing in the main square for us!!! Not really sure what the fiesta was about…..unable to speak a word of Portuguese has been interesting!!! Anyhow we had a very nice relaxed time here and on one day when we had a long boozy lunch – i drank Lambrusco (something i have not done since uni) and it was nice!!!! Danny in a drunken state even took on a local boy at a penalty shoot out – Rooney ... read more

Ok so we were no longer illegal immigrants so I informed Danny that we need to do something cultural.....a museum or something....and I found the perfect place...a chocolate museum...to learn all about cocoa and how to make chocolate etc.....awesome!!! And yes I did make Danny spend some money in the gift shop!!!!! We then met for lunch with our no longer refugee buddies and headed back to our hotel in time for our Inca trail briefing.........only 6kilos was to be carried by our assigned porters...... for a 4 day tour...otherwise we had to carry it ourselves...not good news!!!! I AM A GIRL...I HAVE FASHION NEEDS! That evening we got an email from our Irish buddies, Nora and Dave, who we did our Africa tour with, they had just come back from Machu Picchu so yes we ... read more

Ok so with Danny now recovered from altitude sickness, we headed 6 hrs north/east to Potosi. We got a bus costing 3 quid each and I now understand what my Mum means when she says you pay for what you get......the bus journey was horrific. Bolivia is basically 1 big mountain range and the roads are terrible – we saw 1 truck that had slid off the road so instead of taking that turn easy our bus driver overtook at speed on a blind corner......oh and did I mention this was all happening with snow so you could hardly see.....................we survived and made it to the world’s highest city at 4020m above sea level. By this point a gang of us had formed (i.e. the 6 guys and gals from our salt plain trip and a ... read more

Disaster strikes....... Ok, so from Mendoza we umm..ed and ahh..ed whether to cross to Santiago (Chile – the country not the weather! ) or head up north in Argentina and investigate more wine regions.......and so we headed north h!!! First stop was Tucuman – to be honest not too much to write home about, but I needed a break as we had been on a bus for 14 hours and I wanted to catch a glimpse of the royal wedding......I know the worst republican ever, but I wanted to check out the dress!!! Anyway this place had a nice central square and we even saw some protests going on, we then headed north again to the quaint (and my favourite spot so far in s America) little village of Cafayate. It is total wine country and ... read more

Part 3 – South America.......the journey continues........ Sorry for the delay we have been quite busy! Before i start, it has been brought to my attention by my delightful brother in law (Little Shrimp aka Josh) that my blogs are long and rambling........therefore for this entry only – i have decided to do an executive summary which he will hopefully be able to stomach! So...just for you Josh: Made it to Buenos Aires this place is cool –eaten loads of steak, seen the sites, went to a tango show (Danny fell asleep)......then headed to Uraguay (via boat) had one day in Colonia (had a long, boozy lunch) this place is really pretty, then headed to Montevideo (capital)had to stay a few extra days as no buses out – but this worked out – hired a bike ... read more