Ten countries down then and what have we leaned? Many things indeed, but we thought we´d share our top 10 - see what we´ve done there?Hi All, it's our last blog from Latin America - we trot for the plane to NZ shortly, so we thought it time for a spot of reflection. Since we last updated you, we've crossed into Chile, where Claire held the entire bus up whilst the dogs and customs searched her pack for all those drugs she's been carrying, we've rumbled ...

We´ve been rather lucky with the weather on our whole trip, but Patagonia´s treated us to a heatwave. These things are relative of course, but trotting round national parks, glaciers and lakes in t-shirt and shorts has been awesome. I feel this blog isn´t going to sit well with our northern hemisphere readers. Hi All, it´s our last full day in Argentina (don´t worry a steak of truly epic proportions is planned) and so we thought we should update you on our ...

First class feels good. Didn´t think I´d ever say it but, I really enjoyed a 13 hour bus journey.Last time we left off in Mendoza and we were heading for Buenos Aires. They´re 1300km apart and despite any macho claims of driving it, we´d given Pablo back, so that wasn´t an option. A plane was, but it wasn´t cheap. Which left a bus. The Argentinians have 3 classes of bus; Semi-cama which is a bus as you´d expect it albeit a bit nicer; Cama which gets y...

It´s not our fault. We´re not putting on weight, Argentina´s putting weight on us.Glad we got that cleared up. Hi All, apologies as ever for the delay between blogs but since we last wrote and you (hopefully) read, we´ve been galivanting about Argentina by all means possible. There´s been a road trip, cycling and flying and a decent amount of walking, although perhaps not quite enough to counter-act the other key feature of our latest journey, food. We tried...

Damn it. Having had half my masculinity demolished by porters on the Inca trail, last night I lost the other half. No, it wasn´t too chilly out on the Bolivian salt flats, rather I was beaten by a cow. Well, most of a cow. Literally. Muggins here ordered a grande´ steak on his first night in Argentina... you can perhaps see where this is going. Overhanging all sides of my 12 inch dinner plate and well over 2 inches thick, it was always going to be a challenging...