Day 180: Patagonian platters #1
Overland miles: 8358 Bus hours: 265.25 Empanadar: 28 It might not be as cheap to eat in Patagonia as it is other parts of Latin America, but it sure is […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Day 174: Penguin Heaven
Overland miles: 8358 Bus hours: 265.25 Empanadar: 26 When Clare, our Travel & Nature writer asked me – the Food & Drink guy – to write about Magellanic Penguins in Patagonia, I […]
Day 173: To the end of the world and back
Overland miles: 8358 Bus hours: 265.25 Empanadar: 26 We arrived bleary-eyed in Punta Arenas sometime on 28 December, not knowing if we were awake or asleep. Having gone the whole […]
Day 171: All Change
Overland miles: 8358 Bus hours: 265.25 Empanadar: 26 Every so often, the best laid plans have to be changed and so is the case with our trip. After many hours […]
Day 170: Prawns for Christmas
Overland miles: 8358 Bus hours: 265.25 Empanadar: 22 It wasn’t a traditional Christmas lunch: let’s put it that way. Clare and I were sat at the bar of a beach-shack style […]
Day 169: A Lima Tasting Menu
Overland miles: 8358 Bus hours: 265.25 Empanadar: 22 Whilst Bransby MacDonald-Williams and I were writing for The Inappropriate Show, we came up with a character (based on no-one we knew, […]
Day 157: Quito Snapshot
Overland miles: 7155 Bus hours: 233.5 Empanadar: 20 Ecuador, like El Salvador, was a country not originally on our hit list, but when we realised that Colombia’s land border with […]
How to … Play Tejo (aka Gunpowder Bowling)
We heard about Tejo, Colombia’s second national sport (after football, obvs) during our stay in San Gil. The only way to describe this game is to call it gunpowder bowling – yes, […]
Day 151: Typical Colombian Dishes
Overland miles: 6780 Bus hours: 220.5 Empanadar: 15 Whilst we were in Nicaragua, Prawns for Breakfast brought you a pictorial round-up of our favourite street food and cheap eats across the […]
Day 146: Lost in the Coffee Triangle
Overland miles: 6550 Bus hours: 210.5 Empanadar: 12 After a week in Bogota chugging chicha (fermented fruit-beer), sipping sopa de ajaico (potato and avacado-based soup) and tasting tinto (sweetened instant coffee), the […]
