Right, let me get a few things straight. Firstly, yes, Mary, you are getting old (a big South Anerican Feliz Cumpleaños to ya! Sorry that Craigs´ culinary skills led to a cupcake with candle at 7.30 - hope the rest of the day improved! xxx) it was the blog for the beginning of Feb, I am very far behing because: 1 We havr been very busy having an absolutely fantastic time in Patagonia (yes Dave, it is all its cracked up to be and more) 2 Remoteness has led to...

OK. So in the interests of keeping these relatively shorter I am failing badly, instead I am just putting them in more sections! So, we have got to Frey and now up, after our sugary start, and going to the next campsite. Remember, we are here for the easy/medium ones! But we couldnt see an obvious path out of the campsite. Now, remember that lovely scene I tried to paint, yeah, the one with the steep-sided, bowl-shaped valley with irregular peaks? Well we were a...

Bariloche is the mecca resort for Argentinians whether in Winter for Skiing (note: hopefully theirs goes better than Alan´s! Hopefully your Nursing skills came back Janet and he´s all healed up now (after stopping laughing of course!)) or Summer for Camping. We stayed at the most amazing hostel on the 10th floor, as recommended by the Welsh couple! It had astounding views across the lake, brill kitchen (with pic of me cooking steak!) and a nice chilled communal...

Hi All, So, first up I`m glad I`m writing this shortly after my last. Thank you Grianne for pointing that out so I can clarify my stance and stay out of trouble! But yes, I was aware of the stupid debacle but thought most folk would be able to catch on to the irony and get the joke! But maybe its too early for that yet, or maybe you could get our Declan to explain it to ya (seein as he does take his intelligence from his Uncle Dee!) ;) Tell him I said congrats a...

Hi All. I just want to start by saying thank you to everyone who is following and leaving commemts. It really means a lot and keeps us laughing and reminding us how lucky we are and how much we are missing you all. We are just peeved we cannot reply directly to them all on this website (tho I will write this recommendation to them). This insert is for Santiago, the capital city of Chile and the country tipped to become the first First-World country of South Amer...