Ice cream! Yum, yum, yum. Thats the only reason we stopped off here, and it was well worth it. All locally made organic ice cream, favourite flavours from the huge selection available (11 varieties of chocolate alone!) included banana split, white chocolate and Calafate berry. Doing the fat man walk back to our quaint lodgings, we were grateful for the big comfy bed. After a delicious breakfast with homemade jams and breads we squeezed in one more ice cream befo...

Arriving just before 6am we sat and watched the sun rise over the snowy peaks surrounding the town before heading to a B&B. Emma was full of cold and unsettettled bus sleep meant a day in bed for her. Fortunately, the room came with cable which meant a full Saturday of Premiership football for Jona. After a proper kip Emma was feeling better and we downgraded from the B&B to a hostel more suited to our budget. Sunday afternoon beers turned into Sunday ev...

Wrapped up warm against the biting Atlantic wind, we headed south with our over enthusiastic tour guide to visit the colony of Magellan Penguins. Surprised at how far they migrate in land to nest, we soon found ourselves surrounded by mating pairs - 500,000 at the last count. Emmas fondness of the cute little critters led to much 'cooing' and mimicking of their hilarious little waddle. We were surprised at how close you could get to them and the penguins had ri...

After 22 hours of travelling we arrived into the squat and ugly town of Puerto Madryn, its only for a few days though, its all about the sealife here, and we immediately set about booking our tours. Whales up first, standing on a beach at Penninsular Valdes the next day we awaited our launch along with the hoards. Seeing the amount of people being loaded onto the boat Emma cunningly suggested we hang around at the back to board last which meant we had the bow o...

Had we crossed the border? Our stamp in our passport said so, but with no change in temperature, scenery or language it was hard to believe we were in a new country and it wasn't until later that afternoon that we even realsied there was a time difference. El Calafates Swiss chalet style didnt feel as authentic as Pucon; to be expected we guess as its just a tourist base for visiting the glaciers. However we couldnt fault our newly built hostel, with underfloor h...