Day 360, 29 June 2013, Santiago, Chile. We were sooooo tired after yesterday's 3 country jaunt (out of Uruguay, into Argie, out of Argie, into Chile, out of airport, into town to apartment) that we slept for a long, long time. And then I slept some more. James was up and at 'em and went to sort out our wifi problem. In terms of wifi, South America has been either super (once) to pathetic (mostly) to non-existent (now). Not as bad as Africa. Just. In any eve...

Day 359, 28 June 2013, Colonia (Uruguay) back to Buenos Aires (Argentina) and off to Santiago (Chile). Even Blind Freddy should be able to tell it was Travel Day! It was horrendously overcast this morning in Colonia - our first dull day since arriving into Buenos Aires - it was cold and the air was damp and it seemed barely light enough for 6 am, let alone 8 am when we trekked down to the ferry terminal. The noise and excitement of a footy match in hell greete...

Day 358, 27 June 2013. Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. You know you're having a lazy day when the maid knocks on the door at 11.30 am and you're still in your PJs. What can I say, it was a very dark room and watching Agatha Christie's Poirot series in bed seemed a perfectly sensible idea at the time. We eventually emerged from our hobbit hole and continued to explore Colonia, including the old pier and the waterfront - divine on a warm, sunny day. In fact it...

Day 357, 26 June 2013, Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. A UNESCO listed world heritage site - the old town or barrio historical is the reason we thought a couple of days in Colonia could be fun. We had a leisurely morning at the hotel before heading to the Buquebus terminal for the ferry. Luckily we had some time to hand as the 10 minute taxi ride ended up taking almost 30 in heavy traffic. The ferry was huge and took just on an hour to cross the Rio del Plat...

Day 356, 25 June 2013, Buenos Aires. Murillo Street. We have had such a good time in Buenos Aires that today we had no urge to be anywhere or do anything in particular - so we did our research on google (goo-search?) and found that Murillo Street is door to door with leather shops and factories. Now our local friends said they thought it was definitely a taxi... but non non! We checked the maps, we checked the subway and it got us within a 10 minute walk. $2 i...