big adventures for tiny budgets
This post is a detailed look at our backpacking trip to Argentina at the end of December 2018 including accommodation, long distance and local transport, food, drink and activities. I’ll admit, I’m massive a geek when it comes to tracking spending on trips – I find it really interesting to look back on in the…
“To go left, pull the reins like this and to make him stop, pull the reins back sharply”. This was the one command I really cared about as I eyed my horse, Miguel, nervously. After bumping down a gravel road for half an hour outside of Mendoza with B and two girls from our hostel,…
Whilst living and working in a vineyard restaurant in New Zealand, many of my fellow chefs were from Argentina and Chile, the kitchen often a rowdy babble of Spanish. Occasionally, at staff meal times, we were treated to recreated dishes from South America. Jars of the delicious dulce de leche (caramel milk) were available at…
Bleary-eyed, clutching my passport and a mass of belongings predictably tumbling out my overpacked day bag, I step off the plane and am instantly hit with a rush of cold air. An icy, British winter morning after 10 weeks in South America. I’d left temperatures of plus 25 degrees back in Lima, but secretly, I…
