Hello again! 5 months in South America is now over and we have finally arrived in New Zealand, after much stress and uncertainty. I'll come back to that shortly. We were so pleased to arrive in NZ. Great to be understood and speak English again. Being in a city that doesn't smell! We actually walked around a supermarket for an hour just looking at all the things we missed and we bought a few treats as well! Auckland is great, lots of cool bars, shops and restaur...

Currently writing this from Salvador, Bahia. Brazils third city and trying to fill time before our last overnight bus in South America. PHEW!!! However, I´ll come back to Salvador and return to the end of our last blog and the beautiful Ilha Grande. Hopefully, you´ve already checked out some of the pics, so you should be reasonably familiar with the Tropical Island where we spent Christmas. The Island is trully stunning and still relatively untouched b...

God Jul till alla svenskar and Happy Christmas! We are spending Christmas in Ilha Grande in Brazil and heading to Rio for new year. All the Best and enjoy the holidays Love Phil and Sofia

Hello Everyone! A little update on the latest...Our last stop in Patagonia was in the marine reserv on the Penninsula of Valdes. We based ourselves in the beachresort of Puerto Madryn.The highlight was to go whalewatchng. Every year the Southern Right Whales use this bay to calf.We were extremly lucky, considiring it was end of season, to see 7 females each with a calf. They are enormous, females around 15 meters and the calfs are born 6 meters long and they wei...

Hi everyone, The last 2 weeks we have spent travelling through The Lake District and Patagonia in Chile and Argentina. The distances are enormous, something we didn't really look in to too much before we came here. Anyone who knows Phil, can probably agree with me that he is not "a sitting on a bus for hours" kind of guy. After a few days in Santiago we took a night bus, 10h or 789km, to Pucon. A beautiful Alpine looking town in an area with lakes, h...