So we have now joined the exclusive club of people who have visited all 7 continents on the planet - Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America, Australasia and Antarctica. We are following in the footsteps of of the great Antarctic explorers Shackleton, Drake, Amundsen, Scott and Magellan and we now perfectly understand why they risked life and limb to come to Antarctica repeatedly. Our own journey began by boarding our ship the MS Andrea in t...

So here we are in Ushuaia, the 'town at the end of the world'. It is impossible to go any further south anywhere in the world. Only the Antarctic lies south from here, yet the South Pole itself is still 5000 miles from here! Only where you really study a map do you realise just how huge the Antarctic really is. The region is called Tierra del Fuego (translated as The Land of Fire) and with the rugged, windswept landscape which nestles at the foot of the star...

To sum up the very small town of El Calafate - you would swear you were on the set of Twin Peaks (and for those of you not old enough to remember, get the video!). There is a Main Street and a few side streets off it and that's about it. Each store and restaurant in Main Street is built from wood and very picturesque. There are only 4,000 people in this town which seems to exist soley for the purpose of maintaining the nearby Glacial National Park. Everythin...

Everyone we had spoken to who had visited Bariloche said that we would love it and it was a really beautiful place - but we did not know quite what to expect. As we had travelled overnight to get here we missed out on the change in scenery as we crossed from the east coast of Argentina to the Western border with Chile. The beautiful atlantic coastline we left behind, with steep cliffs, crashing waves and fresh sea air had suddenly given way to a scene from ...

Puerto Madryn is in Patagonia and is the start of the Argentine area for wildlife watching, so most people head here to see Penguins, Whales and Sea Lions. The town is wonderfully reminiscent of a coastal town in somewhere like New England or Maine. The town was settled by Welsh migrants in 1865 and we're told that the nearby town of Trelew still has a few native Welsh speakers. It was great to be able to walk along the promenade and breath in the fresh sea ...