This morning we went to mass down in their little theatre, celebrated by an American priest. Then we went to brekky before returning to our cabin - still waiting for our safe to be repaired. At lunchtime we attended an art auction, where they plied us with free champers - very nice indeed! We managed not to buy any artworks (indeed, we have at least four from previous similar onboard events sill sitting in cardboard tubes in the ceiling, waiting to be framed). On...

After an interesting night we decided to have Brekky down in the restaurant. We were seated at a table for 6 and were joined by Kay and Rod from our tour and a couple from Vancouver. Americans have the greatest portion of passengers on the ship, followed by the Aussies - with 100 fewer. Last night during the strong wind we had difficulty opening our balcony door. When we did get it open, a dragonfly flew in and got itself caught in the light fitting, making for a...

Today we had our brekky delivered to our room - Tom's come down with a sudden, very bad head cold, so this made it easier to be ready for our 8.30 start on our Montevideo Highlights tour. We went to several parks, saw their important parliament buildings, their important statues and their exclusive beachside suburbs. Montevideo and Buenos Aires are both situated on the banks of a huge delta where a few rivers meet. The river that empties on the Montevideo side de...

Early start this morning, ready for our 8 hour shore excursion. We had breakfast upstairs in the Lido, but only a light one. I had been talking to another passenger in the laundry who went on a ranch visit and warned us that we get fed a lot! So off we went to see Gaucho Life on the Pampas. After a 90 minute drive we were greeted with juice and empanadas. We then had the chance to go horse riding or for a wagon ride, or to just check out their museum set up in th...

Today we had a late start. Checkout was 12 midday, so we just took it easy and organised our luggage. Our local guide and driver took us all down to the wharf with Pepe who helped hand over our luggage to the porters, and then it was time to say goodbye to him! :( he has been a wonderful guide for the two weeks. It took forever to wait our turn to go through security, and then upstairs to have id shots taken, stateroom keys given to us, and then another photo for...