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Thirty six years ago, when Brian Williams and I first met as teachers at the British School in Rio de Janeiro, we could never have imagined where it might lead. During our stint there, we both travelled, separately, all over South and Central America. In the 1970s, only a few hardy backpackers got as far afield as Latin America.

When we met again a few years later, we hit on a ground-breaking plan. How could we make use of our unusual combined skills – a comprehensive command of the vernacular in both Spanish and Portuguese, an anorak’s knowledge of transport routes across a largely unvisited continent, and the teacher’s penchant for waxing lyrical on our specialist subject...