And now for the final blog entry: We returned from Colonia by an uber fast boat to Buenos Aires.We somehow managed to miss customs and are still in possession of a form that we are not supposed to have. Upon docking we were shuttled around on a bus to the port. This took a long time for all passengers to get through and it turned out that we were within a 5 minute walking distance after waiting about 30 mins for the bus! We then went straight to our favourite c...

We set off on the full-luxury ultra-modern bus from Puerto Madryn and settled into our seats. Alter watching one film and having some snacks brought round, the TV inexplicably broke, leaving us with the option of going upstairs to watch the working TVs with the lesser kulaks, or staying in our seats downstairs staring out of the window. We chose the latter. Dinner was served after a pit stop of 30 minutes, where we got off the bus and noticed how warm it was. Wi...

Wonderous Wildlife, like TV but colder and wetter After the horrendous child infested 12 hour journey on the way to Ushuaia we abandoned all thought of global warming and took a 25 minute plane.We blame the children for increasing our already rather giant sized footprints!We still had a nine hours wait in Rio Gallegos to wait for our cama bus, still not a full luxury flat bed!In the bus station Charlie's Bolivian Staring Disease showed dangerous symptoms; t...

The End of the World The alarm hisdeously woke us up at 2:30am to get our bus to Ushuaia.We avoided a barking pack of about 50 dogs and made a major detour.Especially as the hostel's dog had followed us.We got the bus and slept all the way to Rio Gallegos.When we got there we changed buses and headed South.The bus journey was certainly not a favourite - we had to go on bus normal, 12 hours during the day, 2 border crossings and a childrens football team bein...

We boarded the bus and later on had some very small meals that nearly led us to starve. Luckily we were sitting downstairs so there weren´t too many kulaks to bother us. We pulled in the next day to a hideous oil refinery town of Rio Gallegos, and from there hotfooted it onto a bus leaving to our desired destination of El Calafate. We were very pleased when we got there and were met by a lady at the bus station who took us to her hostel (very nice and luxury...