What a week! I´m now in Bariloche in Argentina, which is soooooo gorgeous! You might think that you´re in Austria or Switzerland if you just looked at the landscape - beautiful lakes, mountains with snow on the top, pine forests.... and then there´s the chalet-style houses and the chocolate shops! Bariloche has to be one of my favourite places I´ve been to on this trip so far.My week has been pretty hectic... when I last spoke to you I was...

Since I last spoke to you I have been completely "off radar" in Chile. I have been in the Torres del Paine National Park, which is about as remote as you can get... there was no mains electricity, no telephones and certainly no internet cafes! Torres del Paine itself is absolutely stunning... I can´t put into words what it´s like, although the photographs are fairly famous, you might have seen them - they´re the ones with the "tw...

Greetings from Ushuaia... the most Southerly city in the world. You can sail from here and not reach another city until you get all the way back around here again! They call this place "El Fin del Mundo" or "The End of the World", which is a pretty acurate description! It has taken me six days to get here from Buenos Aires, and five of those have been spent driving pretty much continuously from sunrise until sunset. I think I have seen the ins...

Firstly, thanks everyone who has sent me a text, email or posted a message wishing me a happy birthday. Today has been fantastic... we started the celebrations at midnight last night in the pub, after watching a fantastic tango show.  We then went on to a night club, where everyone proceeded to get me incredibly drunk. Obviously it is rude to turn down drinks when they are being offered, so had a bit of a tipsy-wipsy night! Got in at 6.30 am, and have b...

Today I have left Brazil and it´s "Hola" to Argentina. Yesterday we went to the Iguassu Falls on the Brazilian side, and it´s possibly the most beautiful and impressive thing I´ve ever seen! The photographs don´t really do it any justice at all - to see these huge waterfalls coming out of the middle of the rainforest is quite unlike anything else - truly spectacular. To make things even better I went up in a helicopter to see the...