I'm the writing this on our 23 hour coach from Iguazu to Salta. (Please note, this blog was written two months ago on on 13th November!) This is only the north-east to the north-west of Argentina: it makes you realise how big the country is. We just had to carry our rucksacks up a hill at 11am, and the temperature must be 38 centigrade and humid. As I'm carrying all of Jill's make-up my pack feels like there is a very fat child in it, holding some dumb-bells....

Warning: this blog post contains the phrase 's***-pit'. A ferry across the River Plate took us to Uruguay, which is a land more Argentinian than Argentina. For example, everyone drinks mate (pronounced 'matay' not mate as in the cockney 'awite mayte'): even more so than they do in Argentina. Mate seems more of an identity issue than tea is to the English. They put the 'yerba' leaves in a little silver, or wooden, cup, and pour boiling water on them. There's...

A 20 hour coach ride took us south from Buenos Aires, into Patagonia, to a town called Puerto Madryn. Each year, from September to March, Southern Right whales come here to have calves. Each mother has one baby in these warmer waters and then heads further south the rest of the year to follow the krill. And each year tourists like Jill and I come here too. Patagonia, the huge area in the cold south of Argentina, is where thousands of Welsh came in the 19th ce...

There's a man in our hostel who thinks that the end of the world is coming. He says that there's a New World Order, an illuminati, who are planning to enslave the world. World leaders, such as Bush, Blair, and especially Obama (who's 'not even an American Citizen') are the fronts for these people. They put fluoride in our toothpaste and water because it makes us subservient and docile, the teeth thing is just an excuse (apparently Hitler and Stalin also used fl...

Aneesa and Nadine, a couple we know from the UK, met us on our first day in BA. It was great to be welcomed here and shown what's what in the city, and also hear of their trip across South America as they have come from where we're heading. We had drinks in a few bars, including the oldest cafe in BA, and watched tango in a square, then later in the evening took a taxi to a restaurant. The driver was called Rodollfo Cutufia. He asked us what we all did and Ane...