First things first, if you haven’t already seen our completed map of South America can you need to go to the Americas Trip page and see just how far we’ve come since the last blog. If you’ve seen our South … Read More
As usual after an extended stay in a very cool place we didn’t overly feel ready to leave. Also as usual we did actually stay a couple of extra days, meaning we left on Tuesday not Sunday. The staff and … Read More
Spanish Adventure in San Carlos has been our home for the last four weeks. It’s a small, safe town with friendly locals, it’s surrounded by mountains and rivers and even though it’s 120km away from Medellin, you can get everything … Read More
Twenty years ago Medellin, the capital of Antioquia province, was known as the murder capital of the world. From cartels and narcotrafficing in the late 80s and 90s to guerrila and paramilitary groups (as recently as the mid-2000s) it hasn’t … Read More
As a parting gift, when we left Ibagué Carol told us about a dirt road that would take us to our next destination, Salento. It was a dirt road, with a whole load of climbing, but we were promised it … Read More
Since entering Colombia a few weeks ago we have been following one of the two main tourist routes, through Pasto-Mocoa-San Agustin-Tatacoa Desert-Ibagué. This route has mostly followed the valley between the central and eastern mountain ranges and is surrounded by … Read More
Crossing into a new country is normally an exciting time. You always have the minor hassle of actually doing the paperwork and getting the stamps but so far we have never had any problems and we are usually underway with … Read More
‘El Chaquiñan’ is a bike path which follows the old train line from Quito to 20km outside of the city. We joined this route two blocks from Santi’s Casa de Ciclista in Tumbaco and had an easy route out of … Read More
After 4 weeks of food, beer and no exercise at home in the UK you could say that we were sufficiently rested. Cycling seemed like a distant memory as we got on a train to start the mammoth journey back … Read More
“Do not travel to arrive, travel to go” Anonymous.As written on the wall at La Casa de Ciclista, Tumbaco Ecuador2019 We need to come clean. At the end of the last blog we said that we had just arrived at … Read More