Q&A

Alan Hampson OAM, is a World Health Organisation expert Advisor on influenza, and was until recently, Deputy Director and operational head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza. He is also an influenza advisor to the Australian Government, a Member of the Australian National Influenza Pandemic Action Committee and Convenor... [Read more of this review]

Travel

Pasta-Ass Rurrenbaque We arrived in Rurrenbaque after one of the most terrifying journeys of our life. We thought it was a bit of a tight squeeze riding our bikes down the World’s Most Dangerous Road – picture us on a bus! Especially one that REVERSED every time another bus headed in our direction! It was petrifying. But we made it in one piece... [Read more of this review]

In Sucre, learning Spanish BOLIVIA!! Hola mi amigos! Let us pick up where we left off, shall we? Sucre We’d been wanting to do Spanish lessons pretty much from the moment we set foot in South America. If for nothing else, we wanted to avoid making the same perplexed face at people when they started rapid-firing Spanish at us. The tiny town of... [Read more of this review]

Photo by Hayley ARGENTINA (AGAIN) To get from Brazil to Bolivia, we first had to venture back into rob-tastic Argentina (plus we wanted to see the pretty waterfalls of Iguazu Falls). It was a sleepy week and half… Hez, Nik, Ty and I ALL got sick at some stage so a lot of time was spent sleeping, weakly requesting glasses of OJ and putting damp... [Read more of this review]

Hayley at Florianopolis Beach, Brazil BRAZIL We were a little apprehensive about going to South America´s biggest and badest country. For one, we had sort of picked up a little Español and didn’t like the idea of going to Brazil, where they speak Portuguese, and forgetting it all. And two, we were scared! If Argentina could be so unkind to us,... [Read more of this review]