It was a bittersweet farewell to the ship on Sunday morning. We are usually happy souls but have truly been in our element for the duration of our time aboard the MS Roald Amundsen. Sad, sad, sad to say farewell to the expedition crew who turned out to wave us onto the coach. In fairness, perhaps they were just making sure we left. We are super happy we chose to book this excursion prior to the afternoon flight back to Buenos Aires. Having achieved all our shopp...

We finished the packing yesterday so there was a fair whack of chilling out by the time Friday dawned. We watched movies, we limited movement for my sake and ate a lot of takeaway in the cabin - thanks be for Fredheim's fried rice and chicken satay. Saturday proved to be much more agreeable as the captain had gently diverted us further north as we crossed the Drake, keeping us ahead of the weather front moving through. We definitely missed the worst of it due t...

Sometimes four days can snap by in minutes - sometimes it feels like months. In this case it's arguable. There was a lot of busy busy, then a fair bit of hurry up and wait. With a solid dose of utter misery and a doctor's visit thrown in for good measure. Big four days. Huge. We, and our veritable shed load of luggage, taxied over to the Hilton Buenos Aires around 11.30 am on 12 Jan, We did the checkin paperwork, left all four pieces of big luggage with the p...

There's an adage in the travelling world that if you absolutely loved a place when you visited… don't go back. You're risking all those glowing memories. But sometimes it makes sense to go back. There was only one transatlantic cruise and it plopped us down in Buenos Aires which is where we needed to be - albeit 5 weeks sooner than we needed to be there. Financially the cruise and the Airbnb together was still around half the cost of two flights - and we n...