I'm currently sitting on the open topped, blue wooden balcony of the dive school looking out at the rickety wooden pier next door where lots of excited looking divers have just returned on their boat. Eleanor is swinging in a hammock next to me and the sea is a turqoise blue. Today, it is nearly completely still. There are certainly worse places to be stuck due to ash clouds over the UK. When we first decided to come here, we did our usual research and conclud...

Following the fun of the Estancia we made our way on a 2 day trip back across the border to Argentina and, more specifically, Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil.The town itself is small, not a huge amount to look at but everyone is here to visit the waterfalls (Los Cataratas del Iguazu). The waterfalls are a group of 275 individual falls stretching along 2.7 kilometres of the Iguazu River. They're up to 82 metres in height, so they're pretty big...

We e-mailed an address for an Estancia (ranch) that we found on a random blog. We received the reply a few days later apologising for the delay. It explained that the Estancia was a real working farm, not a tourist hotel and said that, yes, of course we could come. It finished with a polite goodbye… and then came the PS's… PS: note: if you are a british teenager; we are not a party place nor an entertainment center. PS 2: if you are a sixty something north ...

Did I make the mistake of saying how good Argentinian buses were in that last blog? Well, big comfy seats don't make up for a bus that turns up over 4 hours late, picks you up and then breaks down half an hour later only to return along the highway to the place you just came from in the dark of night with no headlights on… But - that's part of travelling which, as a side note, I'm still not sure about. I like the 'being' thing but the bits in between are not m...

We decided to don crampons, grasp an ice axe in each hand, tie ourselves into a rope anchored on the top of a glacial mound and then chip our way up the slippery slope... that's just something you have to do if you are visiting an area crammed full of glaciers, which is exactly what we were doing in the aptly named Parque Nacional De Los Glaciares. I assume no translation is needed there? Our long journey here began with a 32 hour bus journey from Bariloche....