After 3 years in South America, I've had my first experience of Brazil, as I went to an education conference in São Paolo in October. São Paolo is a mega city, the largest city in Latin America with over 30 million people in the macro-metropolis area. It is absolutely vast and the car is the … Continue reading First impressions of São Paulo
South America
A spring break in San Pedro de Atacama
In October I spent some time in San Pedro de Atacama, for a spring break - although I'm not sure that spring is really a concept in a desert. However, being spring meant that it was a moderate temperature, both at night (not freezing) and during the day (not incredibly hot, merely high 20s in … Continue reading A spring break in San Pedro de Atacama
A long, thin country
Lots of people know that Chile is a very long country and one way of understanding this is to unfold a standard size country road map. Most countries fit fairly nicely onto the map, or can be put easily onto two sides - not so Chile. When you unfold the map for Chile you find … Continue reading A long, thin country
A Tale of Two Cities – Santa Cruz de la Sierra
The start of my Bolivian trip is in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. What images spring to mind of Bolivia? High Andes, women in huge wide skirts with beautiful embroidery, llamas, salt flats? Is it this? Or this? Yes this is Bolivia too - welcome to the Equipetrol district and to Santa Cruz, the biggest … Continue reading A Tale of Two Cities – Santa Cruz de la Sierra
A Tale of Two Cities – Santiago de Chile
Last weekend I travelled to Santiago, on my way to Bolivia, for a two week tour here. Due to flight schedules I needed to leave the Falklands a week early to get to the start of the tour. A good thing, as it turned out, the weekly Latam flight was delayed 24 hours and left … Continue reading A Tale of Two Cities – Santiago de Chile
Where is Sarah? 