A bit like yesterday the pictures speak for themselves. Took an excursion up the Seno Ultima Esperanza to see two glaciars. On the way we saw cormorants, sea lions and waterfalls. The glaciars were much smaller than the ones we have seen at Laguna San Rafael and Perito Moreno. The one thing about glaciars is the sound of them shifting. It is like thunder and we heard this a few times today. On retreating from the glaciars, we were all given a tumbler of whisk...

Today we went back up to the Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. We filled the HiLux up on the way out of town and Diesel costs about 62 pence a litre. As we passed the piers, we spotted a Skorpios boat docked. When we were getting married, Joan had some crazy idea about hiring a motorhome in Buenos Aires and driving down to Patagonia, though we had never been to South America before, didn't speak the language, Joan had no idea of the distances involved nor the s...

Christmas. As our holidays progress we seem to sleep longer and longer and today it was 9 am before we even moved. We had a look on Facebook to see what our friends and family were doing and most of them seemed to be settling down for Xmas lunch! We had a very festive breakfast of bread, cheese, tomato and avocado with hand squeezed juice and peanut M&Ms! Then we headed 150 kms north to Torres del Paine. In many ways the pictures speak for themselves. The lan...

Mainly a travel day today. Before leaving Punta Arenas we did a shop for Xmas. It was a bit random as we didn't know what cooking equipment we would have. The shop was busy and the car park was a mare! Then onwards north, over blank steppe with relatively empty roads. Eventually the mountains began to rise, snow capped, in front of us. There were plenty of bright lupins growing wild on the roadside. We descended down to Puerto Natales, which is on the very pretty...

Today we picked up the car. We caught a taxi out to the airport and took possession of a Toyota HiLux. Grim experience has taught us that when you go to Chile, Peru or Argentina, you can't save pennies on personal transport. The biggest 4X4 is a must to tackle the rough roads. They're not cheap so we delay as long as possible needing to hire one. (We hired a terrano last year without 4WD and ended up digging the car out of a sand road a long way from town.) We d...