The flight to BA lasted 3 hours with a small snack, but nothing compared to Chile's standards. We took a private transfer to our hotel in the centre of the city, near to the Obelisco. The heat and humidity was a stark contrast to Patagonian weather, especially as the city is currently experiencing a heat wave. I can't even begin to think about the weather back in England, which is where we will be by the end of the week! I took a shower and looked at the time on ...

We arrived at our hotel in El Calafate around 7:15pm. After a briefing from Nati, we and the boys went in search of steak... not before Craig got on wifi and discovered he had been wrong all along about the colour of emus - shameful from and Aussie! We went to a meat restaurant and ordered 4 x bife de chorizo and 4 x papas fritas, plus a bottle of red wine. Since it was a Saturday we then went to a bar and had a number of cocktails. The best discovery of the nigh...

Mendoza is the place where all the wine comes from in Argentina, and on arriving in the city the bus was mostly surrounded by vineyards. At the terminal a really nice hostel-tout (unheard of) told us where to buy onward tickets to Chile and where our hostel was situated. We walked the few blocks to hostel Mora, which is a really nice hostel although one of those places you can´t imagine guys staying at unless they were dragged there by their girlfriends. The roo...

Despite feeling as though I had the best night sleep of my life on the night bus, I arrived at Cordoba at 7am really tired... and Alex felt like she hadn´t slept at all. I proceeded to feel fairly unwell throughout our time in Cordoba, which I can only assume is extended recovery from whatever bug I had in Bolivia. As a consequence, this is likely to be a very boring blog update! We took a taxi to our hostel, which was lucky as it didn´t even have a sign outsi...

Alex and I were excited about returning to Argentina. Bolivia is probably the most beautiful country in South America, and definitely different to home, but it is exhausting and unhygienic. From the moment I entered the country I had been varying levels of unwell and life had progressed into pringles, snickers and TV in bed, which we had mostly resisted before in our travels. Today is our 18th semanniversary. Despite our later-than-planned bedtime, we were down ...