At our bed & breakfast in Valparaíso, Chile, we heard an interesting story about a group of French wine producers visiting the Chilean wine regions. When they were explaining that they were not on holiday but there to find out why French wine is losing so much market share to Chilean wine, an English guy, […]
A very very happy new year to everyone! New year’s day was the day we were ‘en route’ for exactly one whole year. And what a year it has been! It’s been fantastic and it’s going to be hard to ever top it, if at all possible. The bad news is that the end is […]
Rio de Janeiro is a city of 7 million people and that’s small compared to the 17 million souls of São Paulo. Around 20 percent of these people live in slums or favelas as they are called here. Normally the richer areas are up on the hills but here it’s the other way around; the […]
“Global warming caused by humans is only accelerating the natural process of global warming in periods between ice ages”. Or so our guide told us at her introductory talk before we climbed up the Perito Moreno Glacier in crampons… Huh? Well yes. It appears that this particular glacier is not affected at all by global […]
