It's now mid morning in El Chalten. The rain has stopped. The rule is if it's dry do it, because it may not stay that way for long. So we don our walking kit, including wet weather gear and head off to find the bottom of Mt Fitz Roy. It's a long hike but although it's windy it does stay fairly dry. The scenery along the way is varied but always beautiful. I'm amazed when we encounter camp sites and find tents......in this weather.......they must be mad. Even...

11.04.12. We left Puerto Natales on the bus to El Calafate. We would be returning in a week or so as we had decided to treat ourselves. We are planning to go to the Argentine/Chile Lake district at Bariloche. This would normally be a 3 day coach ride from El Chalten. We've decided to take a ferry from Puerto Natales to Puerto Montt through the fiords of the archipelago. I say ferry, it is actually an old cargo boat which has been converted but word is the trip...

Well here we are in Ushuaia - the end of the world. Keep going south and it's Antarctica. We would have loved to go there but it;s stratospheric expensive and we have to make choices. This whole are is The Malvinas. To most of us that means The Falklands. It's clearly all a bit raw still here. Signs say 'The Malvinas lsles are Argentine, Have always been Argentine, and will be Argentine again' or ' The Malvinas illegally occupied by the UK since 1883'. We could ...

26.3.2012. Today has been a look at both ends of living. We set off to further explore the city. Like many cities it has distinct areas, rich, poor, and business. San Telmo where we are staying was once the rich area. Big houses and cobbled streets. Then there were two disease epidemics. All the rich people moved north. The houses were bought up and converted into flats which became homes to the immigrant workers. This left the area with no investment and it d...

25.3.2012. So we are in Buenos Aries, home of the tango. Does it take two? It seems it does. When we booked the hotel via the web site one of the reviews said it's a hotel for gays but everyone is welcome. Jill said 'are you sure?'. I said' darling every gay I've met has more style than me, so let's go'. Good decision. It's a small boutique style hotel with some really quirky features. The room is neat and clean with a big mural on the wall of two tango danc...