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After motoring over 30,000kms through South America we thought we’d take a break from the bike and fly to Cuba to explore the island and meet up with Mama and Papa Johnson, who flew in from UK. After Nick picked … Continue reading
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Speak to people travelling around South America, or indeed the world, and one of the places that nearly all of them have on their wish list is Machu Picchu. Literally meaning ‘old peak’ in Quechua, the language of the Incas, it was … Continue reading
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Arriving in Santiago, having been travelling through the remote wildness of the Carretera Austral, was a bit of culture shock. We were greeted with a traffic jam like something out of the Italian Job, made all the more hectic by … Continue reading
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After Bariloche, we had planned to go to Pucon, in Chile. However, bad weather and bad map reading meant we missed a crucial turning. As a result, we ended up having to drive for two days in the wrong direction, spending two … Continue reading
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São Paulo is a big city; in fact, it is the largest city in South America, and the fifth largest by population in the world. It has a very different feel to the other Brazilian cities we have visited, being more … Continue reading
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Following on from our earlier post ‘The Oscars’, we have continued our Oscar Niemeyer pilgrimage in Brasilia. Niemeyer designed nearly all of Brasilia’s significant buildings, from the angular governmental buildings of the late 1950s to the Brasilia Digital Television Tower … Continue reading
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The Rough Guide describes Brasilia as being similar to Paris. Whoever wrote that is either smoking something or has never been. Or probably both! Brasilia was created in the late 1950s, in the middle of a desert, by a chap … Continue reading
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A much anticipated highlight of the Brazilian leg of our trip was to see some buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the legendary Brazilian architect who designed the UN HQ in New York, amongst many other fantastic buildings. Brasilia boasts the most buildings by Niemeyer … Continue reading
El Grande Tour 