Hi everyone Its 6 am here, we're meant to be at the port at 8am to cath our ferry to Uraguay, but we have only just got in from our night out. We decided it would be easier to stay up than to grab an hours sleep, so i thought i would update my journal while i have the chance. Today has been a very busy day, but its been great. We headed to the Evita museum first thing which was really interesting. There is a real mix of opinions about whether she was a ...

Hi Everyone Unfortunately our travel plans have been on hold for the last couple of days as i went down with a not very nice bug, i thought it was food poisoning or something like that, but the doctor in our hostel was talking about a virus from Iguassu that a few people have had. Thankfully its only a 2 day thing and Claire escaped it! After 2 very frustrating days stuck in the hostel ( i find it impossible to sit around and do nothing!) i'm much better and...

Hi Everyone So at long last i have put my pictures up, haven't had time to put descriptions on all of them, and only just figured out about rotating them ha ha so excuse a few sideways ones! So still in Buenos Aires and still absolutely loving it! Yesterday we attacked the sunday markets, there are so many!! First off, we went to Recoletta Market, Recoletta is one of the nicer Barrios, its quite upmarket with big houses and parks etc. The market is full of c...

Hello!! We are now in Argentina- after an 18hour killer journey (thanks to a vomitting todler sat behind us! super!) we are back in a buzzing city- Buenos Aires! It feels really European here with so many gorgeous cafes and bars and boutiques. We arrived at 7am, wearing flip flops and vests after being in a very warm and sunny Brazil, and found ourselves in a rather chilly city where everyone was wearing scarves and huge parker coats!!! So today we went out ...

Hi Everyone Sorry i have been a bit lazy with the journal and emails recently but we have been so so busy recently. We left Parati Wed last week and took a 6hour coach drive to Sao Paulo. As soon as we arrived we weren't comfortable there. Nelson had got on the coach with us as he had picked up some strange malaria type illness ( apparantly 3000 in Parati had it and 8000 in Ihle Grande- stunning island near Parati, i really wanted to go there so was a bit gu...