North American adventure

I left Rio about 2 weeks ago and embarked on the final leg of my year long around-the-world adventure in continent number 5 North America. I met up with Tim in Boston in time for some 4th of July madness, and we have since travelled north through the forests of Vermont, entered Canada and French speaking Quebec, partied in the capital Ottawa and are now relaxing by Lake Ontario in a place called Kingston.

The trip has been great so far – so much to talk about, but as is usual with travelling (and to my surprise in US and Canada) the internet hasn’t been great. Many hotels have a net connection but it often costs to use or is

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July 13th, 2010 | Category: around the world, North America, road trip, world travel | One comment

Aerolineas Crap-gentinas

I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the early hours of 30th December after a 7 hour delay from Buenos Aires thanks to Aerolineas Argentinas who really are the worst airline with whom i’ve ever flown. Not only were we so badly delayed, but there wasn’t any level of customer service at any point – not even any water for the passengers.

All was fine until 15mins before departure when the board displayed ‘delayed 1hr’. Then, each hour that passed, the time of delay increased by one more hour. After three hours, the flight dropped completely from the screen, and the plane which had been sat at our gate number 11 pulled away. After five hours, I,

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December 31st, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: plane flights | Leave a comment

Chennai to Delhi by train

I have just completed the longest rail journey of my life so far. 2 nights and 1 day on the Tamil Nadu express train between Chennai Central and New Delhi.

The train is very impressive. Wipe all your preconceptions about Indian trains being dirty, crowded and slow.  Whilst the suburban rush hour trains certainly are some or all of the above, the long distance sleeper trains are lovely. There are 7 ‘classes’ on Indian trains – 1st and 2nd class Air Conditioned (AC) sleeper, 3rd class sleeper, just ‘Sleeper’, chair class and one other which I couldn’t find…

Indians are quite crazy about their trains. Whenever we pass through a tunnel, everyone whoops, shouts and screams. Every 20 mins or

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September 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: train travel | Leave a comment

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