18:45 - I had a long night...couldn't fall asleep. At 4am I was still reading 'This thing of darkness'...at 5 I must have finally drifted off but the reception chap at 6am was shouting and knocking on people's doors...not really sure why but I would have happily killed him. At 7.30 I got up to get ready and have breakfast before meeting the rest of the group at 8 for our excursion to the Petito Moreno Glacier. After Toby had been dismissive about anyone doing the...

00:00 - A travelling day today. We were to go off at 9am but our bus and Manuel had some sort of mishap (rumours were of another flat tyre) and we actually set off at 10.30. This meant that we didn't get to our hotel in El Calafate until 6pm (further delay due to a broken window at the back if the minivan that kept falling off so we had to keep stopping to glue it back on). The voyage itself was pretty uneventful. We drove a couple of hours to the chilean border ...