Samuel J Fletcher

São Paulo… …is gritty. Like, very gritty. Certain areas are especially equipped with grit. Sé, for example. Sé is a central borough of...

The journey from Patagonia to the Ibera Wetlands was precisely what you’d envisage: long, arduous, and entirely awesome. From a...

It begins with a conversation. The clocks tick to 2am at the check-in desk. ‘Your seats are in the emergency exit row. Do you have any...

‘This city has more psychiatrists than any other city on earth. It also has more dogs than children under 10 years old. I guess a...

This trip had only a couple of markers. The first was Cusco and the Inca Trail; we’d booked that and we weren’t bloody missing it. The...

We’ve got some visitors on the way. Twizzle your tache in glee. Upon arrival in Santiago, we take another metro ride with too much...

Let me explain myself. After Amazonia we headed (via consecutive night buses) to the constitutional capital of Bolivia — Sucre. Sucre...

The first thing you need to know about anacondas is that their shite looks like mayonnaise. I can’t for the life of me figure out whether...

Goodness gracious great balls of time. It’s been a hell of a little while has it not? Gona fly through this in Kerouac style choppy...

Hunched on wobbly stools around the wobbly dining table someone asks our guide: hey what happens if somebody gets seriously injured on...

There’s a stark, immediate disparity in the scenery between Colombia and Peru. All the lusciousness I waxed lyrical about in previous...

Shorter one for you. Could’ve combined it with the cities but didn’t. Didn’t want to. Didn’t have the energy. Didn’t anticipate you’d...

Here’s a fun narrative device: beginning at the end. (And by ‘end’ I mean the arbitrary cut-off for this particular entry. So let’s begin...

TIme is the most steadfast of adversaries. When you travel you can seemingly extract more from each passage of time, but so too does it...

I will very well bear that in mind. How about a healthy combination of both? Nothing disastrous about that is there. In patting Central...

One little post every ten-or-so days will do the job I’d have thought. Highly doubt that anyone but our parents, siblings, and the odd...