by Jonathan Evans | Apr 17, 2010 | Argentina, Brasil, Food, General Travel, Peru, South America
One of the joys of travelling in a country where they don’t speak your language is that occasionally you’ll come across a name that has one meaning for the locals and another entirely for you. And you can take a picture and giggle at the crazy foreign...
by Jonathan Evans | Mar 21, 2010 | General Travel
I remember reading once that in order to maintain reader interest, a blog should be updated at least 3 times a week. Well, you may have noticed that I’m not quite there! Since moving the blog from Vox to jontyjago.com I’ve wanted to write much more, but...
by Jonathan Evans | Mar 11, 2010 | Ecuador, General Travel, Peru, South America
Was watching the local news yesterday and was a little bit freaked out to see a brief item about a bus crash having killed 4 people here in Ecuador. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but what caught our attention was that the bus had come from the Peruvian...
by Jonathan Evans | Mar 11, 2010 | Ecuador, General Travel, South America
There are times when it simply just doesn’t work out. We got to Ecuador last Thursday and found a nice relaxing hostel in the historic centre. Friday we just mooched around, Saturday we took a trip up to the Cajas National Park which was beautiful – it...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 20, 2010 | General Travel
I haven’t had chance to look at this properly, but it looks wonderful – Google have teamed up with Russian Railways to allow you to travel the Trans-Siberian railway. When I have my proper computer back I’ll take a more detailed look, so let me know...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 17, 2010 | General Travel
Wallet Garden is a very simple and neat idea, which could come in very useful for travellers (and non-travellers alike). Create an account using an email address and password and it allows you to save the emergency numbers and web addresses for your bank. No important...
