Lima is almost 4,000 km south of Venezuela on the Pan-American Highway, but all the way up through Peru and into Ecuador, next to the usual sellers...

Peru is full of amazing archaeology, and also has an almost embarrassing quantity of remarkably good museums. Sadly, this made me into a...

It’s been more than a month since we left Santiago for the final time. I’ve been meaning to write something about how things were there but have been...

Several years ago, I had a watch with a barometer in it - presumably designed for people who ski a lot, and want to know how much they’ve gone up and...

The town of Pucón is a good ten-hour bus ride south of Santiago, nestled between lakes and volcanoes in the Araucanía region of Chile. All the...

I saw some people having a competition on social media recently. Simple rules: when you hear the Wham classic “Last Christmas” you’re out; everybody...

A solitary voyager embarked on an infinite journey would require an infinity of transit lounges - J. G. Ballard, Report on an Unidentified Space...