Its quite a shame that Buenos Aires didnt live up to its reputation for us. We decided to leave for Chile and cut our losses and try and go skiing in the Andes. We booked a bus from Buenos Aires to Santiago upgrading to the slightly better seats. We had a whole day to waste in the city and so what better thing to do then go sit in an Irish bar and drink beer. The beer is seriously good as is the wine. There is definately no way we are cutting out the booze on t...

There really isnt a lot to say about today. We had hoped that we would fall in love with this city but sadly we didnt. We spent the day looking round a place that as far as we could see was a really bad version of madrid. There were some good bits of course, like us both being totally incapable to reading a map without going the wrong way and the people looking at us as if we were completely strange walking round in shorts in the middle of winter but hey we are ...

We arrived in Sao Paulo early on saturday morning and were suddenly shocked into realising that people really didnt speak much english!! We really wish we had spent more time learning some before we set off. Anyway, we sat in Sao Paulo airport for a few hours getting used to how utterly slow and useless people can be in South America at getting things to run on time. Mike's plane took off half an hour late and it was so funny to see him go off alone dreading the ...

Ok well here goes to finally getting the blog up to date. I left Southend early afternoon and managed to hit all the traffic on the way to heathrow and to make matters worse, I was still waiting to hear whether I had passed my exams and would actually be allowed to go away. Meanwhile mike was sitting in the Traf with the boys and Babs chilling and mocking me for continuously calling him with questions about what we were doing. Anyway we both managed to get ours...