One week later and everything seems to be going as well as possible, I have finally worked out the 'gaucho technique', which is that there is not one, they ride exactly the same way as us, I just had not mastered cantering however having adjusted my stirrups have finally got it! Otherwise the routine continues, very relaxed with trips to the town and we have been planting some grass for next year so more tractors. Unfortunately I will be leaving in about a week...

Started in my new farm a few days ago. If I thought Isabel was in the back end of nowhere I was way wrong. This place is 70 miles from Bahia Blanca and about forty minutes from the nearest town. However, whilst it is still an Augspach farm, that's where the similarities end. Isabel was flat as a pancake and La Gloria is sort of rolling scrub hills. The gorse and thorn trees are standard and cover the majority of the land. Its phenomenally dry however there is n...

The last week has been pretty hardcore. Whilst it has been fairly routine with cattle feeding as normal, some other stuff has not been brilliant. I managed to snap the wheel of a 7 ton two wheel trailer which whilst being impressive was bloody annoying for me. Luckily they had it fixed within hours, which was staggeringly efficient in a place so far removed from the modern world. My birthday was a complete non-event, it was a normal working day, but to be hones...

Well I have got used to the routine including the brutal cold when I wake up at 7 in the morning (my radiator is extremely poor). However work is coming along nicely and I can now drive tractors which is pretty cool. Its not that demanding but it is still 7 till 7 which is fairly full on. A couple of days ago we actually butchered a sheep for a barbecue which was interesting and certainly got me over any squeamishness about guts and such like. Whilst the meat wa...

And so to work! I have arrived in Lincoln after a few days looking round Buenos Aires and seeing my friend Luz who was brilliant about showing me round and helping me to find my feet. BA is huge so gonna need some time to look round, but have seen Recoleta and the government house so that's a start, although I will need to make a plan for the next time I go to see it all. Spent a few days in Pergamino about two hours from Buenos Aires on the main ranch of Robe...