Heading south on a Pullman bus along the dry coast, we made the 6.5 hour journey to Antofagasta. There was not really a whole lot…
It’s about a seven hour bus ride from San Pedro de Atacama to Iquique. The TurBus bus was a little run down: no movie, the…
One of the most memorable parts of finishing the 3 day Bolivian salt flats/desert tour was the sudden smoothness of the paved Chilean road. The…
Instead of a 10 hour overnight bus ride, we opted for a 60 minute flight from La Paz to Uyuni. We crammed into a taxi…
It was a curious sensation landing at La Paz Airport; instead of the pressure increasing as we landed, we could feel the pressure being let…
Arriving at the Madrid airport, we made our way to Hostal Jerez which was a about 100 yards off of Grand Via (and it’s metro…
A quick drive down the Douro Valley and we arrived in Porto. It was a bit confusing dropping off the car at the Campanha Train Station…
On the way out of Coimbra we picked up our newly formatted laptop (in English not Portuguese as we’d feared when they told us the…
We drove from Pedra D’Ouro to Coimbra stopping at the ancient city of Conimbriga – the largest Roman settlement in Portugal. Google took us in…
From Evora, our first stop was the castle of Almourol, a medieval castle (actually quite small) atop the islet of Almourol in the middle of…