The best of Mexico on a plate
In the last week of our Mexican return, staying on Isla Mujeres, we took advantage of a reasonably good forecast for the first few days to take a taxi into […]
Category Archives: Ferries
Puerto Morelos to Isla Mujeres – part 3
The stunning light and sound show we caught on our first night in Valladolid – projected onto the side of the 16th century Convent we were staying next to – vividly […]
Day 263: Things we used most
Overland miles: 12975 Bus hours: 375.5 Empanadar: 80 Half-way through our trip, Prawns For Breakfast, feeling if we are to be honest, just a little sorry for ourselves, published our […]
Day 200: Two broke travellers
Overland miles: 9801 Bus hours: 301 Empanadar: 38 Our finances had taken a bit of of a battering travelling in Patagonian Argentina, so we reluctantly abandoned plans to head north […]
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 105: Upriver to Costa Rica
Overland miles: 4756 Tacocount: 73 Days without sodas: 8 After San Juan del Sur’s surfing (mis)adventures, we made our way to Isla Omepete, an island formed by two volcanoes in […]
Day 14: Boat, chicken bus and train
Overland miles: 1202 Tacocount: 37 Days without tea: 4 When we talked about this trip we agreed we wanted to experience as many different kinds of overland transport as we […]
Prawns for Breakfast 