My Top 5 Capital Cities From Around The World!!!
I thought recently about all the capital cities I’ve been to and how they don’t always live up to expectations. I’ve been to capital cities in about 55 of the 80 countries I’ve backpacked through…
Top 5 Things to see and do in Asuncion, Paraguay
I LOVE it when people ask me about South America and they say “did you go to Rio or Bariloche?” Because the answer is “no” and quite frankly, I still don’t really care that much…
Friday’s Featured Food: Chipa in Paraguay🇵🇾
What is Chipa? Actually don’t answer that, let’s start with a “What is Paraguay?” Well you’ll never really know unless you go there, so I went there. As I caught a local bus across the…
The Day I…Was A Stranger in Paraguay
A bit of a change from the normal here on this post. This is an article I wrote for a travel magazine once which was never published and until now hasn’t seen the light of…
Friday’s Featured Food: Paraguayan All You Can Eat Buffet!
Paraguay offers you an alternative experience to the rest of South America as I seen it. Here in Asuncion, the country’s capital city, tourists are few and far between. Even staying at the city’s best…
Top 5 Scenic Bus Journeys
As a traveller, long distance buses become a way of life and part of the travel routine. I personally love them – a great way to sit back, relax and let someone else drive you…
Asuncion to Luque to Santa Cruz De La Sierra (Leaving Paraguay for Bolivia): Wrong Bus, Late Flight and Freebies
This is not my exact bus that I boarded to leave behind the city of Asuncion, as I had no time to take a photo of that. But this is what it looked like!…
Last Train To Nowhere: Touring The Dis-Used Train Station in Asuncion, Paraguay🇵🇾
If I had to list my favourite method of travel, it would probably be train travel (just edging being onboard a boat). Not only have I watched many documentaries on train travel, but I…
Jose Luis Chilavert, John Hart and Standing on The Pitch at Estadio Defensores Del Chaco
Mixing football with travel can be easy, and also provide you with a good excuse to travel. All I would have needed to do then would be to take a leaf out of Shaun…
Thirsty Thursdays: A Night Out In Asuncion, Paraguay
Asuncion was my hidden gem in South America. Unknown, under mined and neglected. In fact I must admit that before I even went there I had met LESS THAN 10 people who had ever been…