Motorcycling around South America...
Some time in 2003 we decided to put a date on our trip: 2007. By then our plans started slowly to take shape. We decided to go to South America. We knew the continent a bit and wanted to spend more time there.
In 2004 we went on holiday to Peru. In a hotel lobby in Puno,on the edge of the lake Titicaca, we saw a motorbike. The number plate was British. Someone travelling by bike around South America! We never met the biker. By the time we came back from visiting the floating Islands, the bike was gone. I never completely forgot that bike, I was already thinking of the possibility of doing South America by bike. I was not the only one having crazy ideas then... It kept me thinking.
One day, coming back from work, I said casually to Alistair, who was busy reading the sport pages of the Evening Standard: "What about taking the bikes with us to South America?" I expected he would tell me I was mad, and I had prepared a long list of reasons for why whe should take the bikes. I needed not to worry. His reply was only "Yeah, why not..." before plunging back to the footy pages! (Note to myself: always propose crazy ideas to other half when he's reading good news from the Footy pages of the paper!)
So that was it.
What else to say. I am French, from Spanish parents (handly for South America!) and Alistair is Anglais. Hence the website name.
We met in 1995, in Paris. Alistair was sent to Paris by his company, for a couple of months. I had finished university and doing crapy temp jobs, unable to get a permanent job. Alistair decided to transfer to Paris. In 1997 we moved to the UK, hoping for better job opportunities for me in the City... and never looked back.
