When the weather's warm you’ll often catch glimpse of a mosquito buzzing around your head, legs or bare arms, looking for a spot to land. You watch it buzz. You know if you lose sight of it it’ll pick a spot, land ever so softly and feed.The man standing between Ellen and I looked a little like a balding Ward Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver. He had a rain jacket draped over his arm. As the subway came to a stop, the man started pushing past me tow...

A five litre jug of wine can be had in Argentina's wine growing capital, Mendoza, for between five and six dollars. Many of the town’s restaurants have fixed price menus. Your choice of beverage is soda pop, water or wine. Coffee is extra. Massive tall trees line the streets that bring tourists from far and wide to tour the area’s bodegas, or wineries. Ellen and I had never visited our own wineries, in the Niagara region, so it seemed like kind of...

 I didn't really want to visit Moreno Glacier. The photos I'd seen of it weren't particularly impressive. The big ice was an hour and a half bus ride away, the day was cold and the wind blows all the time in southern Patagonia. But when we got there I couldn't take my eyes off the glacier and didn't want to leave when it was time to go.  Moreno Glacier's jagged peaks climb sixty full meters out of the water. It calves constantly. That me...

Trelew (pronounced tray-lay-ooh), originally a Welsh community in Patagonia, is one of Ellen´s reasons for coming to Argentina. Not for the Welshmen, but for the penguins. I rented a Volkswagen and drove one hundred and twenty kilometres to Parque Punta Tombo, just to watch the smile on her face. The camera clicked so often, I thought the battery would explode. Here are the top 20 photos.

 The Valdez Peninsula on the Atlantic coast of Patagonia is desert. It's an area where sea creatures congregate, both to mate and birth their young. And to feed.. For seals, it seems like an odd choice of a place to do any of these things. They've put themselves in a double 'S' Catch 22 situation. If they crawl too far from the shore they find themselves stranded in the hot desert. If they stay too close to shore they risk becoming orca dessert....