We land in Rio de Janerio and head off to our iconic hotel, Copacabana Palace, situated in the heart of Copacabana Beach. In fact, our...

Off to Iguazu, that is in the North-East of Argentina, bordering both Brazil and Paraguay. We stay at the Mercure Iguazu Hotel Iru, that...

We fly to Lima and stay at Casa Andina Premium Miraflores. However, we need to backtrack to when we were at Cusco, as there was some...

We had a morning tour of Arequipa, starting off with a view of the volcano range that overlooks the city. A visit to Parroquia San Juan...

We have an early start to go to the Colca Valley, which is a 6 hour drive. Our guide, Yanira, meets us and we start our long journey. ...

We take the PeruRail Titicaca train from Cusco. This is no ordinary train. We sit in a vintage 1920's Pullman carriage with individual...

We take a tour of the city and surrounding areas. We head out of the city to visit Sacsayhuaman, an Incan fortress, again demonstrating...

We take The PeruRail Vistadome train to Machu Picchu. The journey is all uphill and lasts about 1.5 hours. As we have already...

After an overnight stop near the airport in Lima, we head off to Cusco by plane and then transfer to our hotel, Aranwa Sacred Valley, in...

Our plane lands in the evening at Calama airport and our journey is about an hour to our hotel, NO1 Casa Atacama, in San Pedro. There...

We take the plane to Puerto Montt, then are driven to Hotel Cumbres, Puerto Varas, our hotel for the next 3 days. Here, we go on a...

We land in Santiago and travel to our hotel, the Intercontinental. The hotel is nice and we have a good room, but there is not really...

We stay two nights in Auckland. The weather is not great; overcast and intermittent rain. Our hotel is the Crowne Plaza and on one of the...

Typical. 5 days of a beach break about to start and Keith goes down with Man flu. As such, the blog gets shelved for a while and we...

We stay for a couple of nights at Lake Taupo Holiday Resort. It's the first park we have stayed at where there is a thermally heated...

On the way to Napier, we stopped off at the Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre. Amoungst other wildlife, it had a Kiwi house, so we were...

We catch the Interislander ferry for our crossing to the North Island. It’s a lovely but cold morning, so it’s great to see the...

Woke up to find the shower tray had filled up again, so there is still a problem with the waste water not draining away. Such a pain. ...

Off on a trip today comprising a boat ride around the coast and then some kayaking. We set off on the boat with other passengers and...

Oh, what a night - and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons were no-where to be seen. The motorhome shook side-to-side pretty much from 10...