Iguazu Up early on Tuesday and straight on the bus and ferry back to buenos aries. We got back to BA, killed a few hours waiting for our bus to depart. If Peggy wasn't a bus but a truck then the bus we caught wasn't a bus but an old school first class plane with wheels. We had a seat that was wide and comfortable, went flat in the evening when it was time to sleep. We got a massive meal for tea. We had sheets and pillows. The bed/seat was more comfortable tha...

Up fairly early on Monday, laundry dropped off at a laundrette and other mundane stuff done before we went on a hop on hop off bus tour. I know that this sounds ultra cheesy but we wanted to do as much as we could in as short a time as possible, so like two Japanese tourists we set off on the top deck with our camera primed. Our first stop was Boca, famed for it's world famous football team Boca Juniors. Boca was the traditionally poor immigrant area, it was...

Initial thoughts about Buenos Aries It is massive The taxi driver was smoking There were a lot of people around It was going to be a lot of fun. So as we got Moira off in a taxi it was just Lisa and I for the next 17 days until Elliot and Saskia join us for carnival. Exhausted and tired after the previous five weeks we just wanted to get to our hostel room, have some food and sleep. The hostel was a disappointment, I had booked it and I don't quite remember whe...

6th - 9th feb Something had happened on the trip. Most people had got on, after my initial misgivings about the age range and Ally, the highs and lows we had all been through had bonded us. The meals on the campsite, by the roadside and the beers had brought us all together. Not everyone got on and I can't imagine Gaynor and Moira will be exchanging Christmas cards but on the whole we had become a team. Roadside picnics were now a military operation run by a t...

Back in the loving bosom of my wife and not being on a bus i was free to enjoy the last half day in El Chalten and that was spent on a15km trek through a forest where we enjoyed fabulous views of the Fitz Roy mountain on a surprisingly sunny day. It was then back on Peggy to continue along route 40 south to El Calafate. There we were joined by 4 more passengers, making us 19, and bringing down the average age. On introducing ourselves to one of then he told us ...