Baños (Ecuador)

After a 5-hour drive southwest from Tena, you will find Baños de Agua Santa (or just Baños, as people call it): a wonderful town with a population of around 14,600 inhabitants in the province of Tungurahua, in the centre of Ecuador. Baños de Agua Santa (translated into ´Baths of Sanctified Water´) and its province have...

Amazon Jungle (Tena – Ecuador)

The second stop of my South America Adventure is quite a thing: I´m off to the Amazon Jungle in Tena, capital of the Napo province, in Ecuador. Tena is 5 hours away from Quito by bus. Once there, I passed onto another small vehicle and drove for about 45 minutes more into the Amazon Rainforest. The...

Quito (Ecuador)

Here we go. My big adventure in South America has started and it has commenced from the top: Ecuador. Let me see, what do I know about South America...? A little, to be honest: the fact that they speak Spanish (except in Brazil, Guyana and Suriname), and that this is because of those barbarian conquistadores,...

Bye bye, My London

I go to the kitchen to cook for the very last time, and I pour red wine into my glass. I play some of my favourite music, and I am about to start singing like I usually do (this is what I call my daily kitchenette Party), but when I open my mouth, I find...

Iceland

Led Zeppelin described it: “The land of the ice and snow, where the hot springs flow…” I´ve also come from the land of the ice and snow, where sleeping mountains of fire await to be awoken, and waterfalls run furiously in expression of their magnificent power; a land of contradiction, where ice and heat live...