Category Archives: Argentina

An uneventful bus journey! Is that too much to ask for? It´s likely to take around 5 hours depending on the border crossing into Chile, that’s what the girl said when we booked. All aboard, settle down and amuse yourselves…. … Continue reading →

An early start today to hand the car back in. Not that it´s far, just the other end of the main street. A treacherous journey though, as you didn´t know if you were going to be singled out and chased … Continue reading →

Being our own boss today, having the luxury of the hire car meant we didn´t have to be on a tour bus at 0800 but could have a leisurely get-up and set off for the glacier via the supermarket and … Continue reading →

Prejudices! ….. we can all stereotype about and give each other a hard time about doing so, some of us are not big fans of “them”, and some of us are open-minded giving each interaction the benefit of the doubt … Continue reading →

Yawn! There was half a plan to get up mega early and go catch the sunrise over the Fitz Roy but as the alarm went off around 0630 the rain stopped play and we had a further hour or torture … Continue reading →

An 8 for 9am start even in Spanish/Argentinean time you could stretch a bit but with so many nationalities to co-ordinate you can imagine it was a bit later than planned when we finally got on the hills. Some of … Continue reading →

There´s supposed to be wifi in this hostel but it´s proving elusive! We manage to get onto a static PC in the common area and see that Michael arrived yesterday evening as agreed and has stayed another night when he´s … Continue reading →

We have in hindsight many titles in our heads for today’s blog. We started with: “Cold, wet, muddy Route 40″, to partner yesterday’s title, but it really didn´t fit in the end. Others we´ve since considered have been: Bus broke … Continue reading →

A 6am start for us, our bus leaves at 0630, making a 13.5 hour road trip to our halfway point 800km down the Route 40 (classic North – South Argentinian highway) to Perito Moreno where we´re all put up in … Continue reading →

Mega zzz´s today till late, then a chat with the Deery´s, good to speak to you guys and off for a Rock Chicken lunch, which proved all too much for everybody, so a siesta was brought into play to remedy … Continue reading →