Wednesday 27th January We were up early again to see the sail in to Buenos Aires. The alarm went off at 6.30 and Martin was off to the forward deck like a shot. I followed on slightly later. We had had a pilot ship with us since yesterday evening as we had to travel around 100 miles up the mouth of the huge Rio de la Plata - River Plate - to reach BA. Argentina is on one side of the river and Uruguay on the other. In the harbour the ship had to turn around 180 ...

Sunday 24th January The start of 3 days at sea as we head towards Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina. Reading, writing, a little bit of sunbathing (as it clouded over not long after I found a suitable sunbed!), a decision not to take part in 'Murder on the Marco Polo', a Clive Leatherdale talk on Argentina (stayed awake, very interesting) and Eggheads on the Pool Deck. Eggheads not really working as the Eggheads are members of the ET and are all under 30 an...