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The highs of Peru

I’ve been in Peru little over a week now and I have one word to summarise. High!

I spent three days in Miraflores, Lima, which is really pretty and very western. There are big shopping malls, wide roads and nice places to eat. I even managed to find an english speaking hairdresser for my long-needed haircut. [...]

Hello South America

I’m on the plane from San Jose, Costa Rica to Lima in Peru, 10km above a desert coastline which is presumably Equador. After my last post things changed fairly dramatically. Aoifer couldn’t cross the Costa Rica/Nicaragua border, despite having a photocopy of her old passport, a police report, a document from the Italian (EU) consulate [...]

Nicaraguan Passport thieves

I’m nearing the end of my time in Central America which i’m feeling quite sad about, as this has been such a great place to explore. Despite a few hiccups – breaking camera, damaging iphone and the copious amounts of rain, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have been fabulous. They are all such different, [...]