EmilyandAngus

One last marathon bus journey and lo and behold we're right back where we started nearly 3 months ago, Buenos Aires. After finding a hostel, a quick shower and shrugging off sleep deprivation we set off into the city with only one thing on our mind - curry. Argentinian food is generally good but a man (or woman) needs something spicey now and again and if anywhere in Argentina had a curry house, it would be Buenos Aires. Sadly the weeks of anticipation were not worth it as when my rogan josh finally arrived it was about as hot as Margaret Thatcher in a hajab. Our quest for spiciness was finally fulfilled the next day by some rather good spicy beef in a chinese just down the road from the hostel. Anyway, my food obsession out ... read more

Reserva provincial esteros del Ibera is a large wetlands with hundreds of different types of birds, as well as caimen (small alligators), black howler monkeys, capybara (the largest living rodent!), neotropical otters and different types of deer. It has converted Angus and I into bird watchers! We went out on several boat rides to explore the wetlands and enjoyed seeing several bird species (including herons, egrets, comorants, humming birds, kingfishers, woodpeckers, hawks, caracaras, woodrails, terns, parakeets, cuckoos, owls, martins, swallows, cardinals, finches, blackbirds, marshbirds, Southern Screamer, ducks, limpkins, gallinules, jackannas, tyrants, vultures.......sorry to go on). We particularly enjoyed taking the hostel owners canoe out to explore ourselves. It is made us of several lakes with channels leading off. The lakes are surrounded by marshland and floating islands. One... read more

We spent a couple of days in Mendosa, the main wine growing region in the country. We enjoyed tasting wine at a few of the Bodigas around Mendosa, as well as time spent strolling in the park. Unfortunately whilst in an internet cafe our small rucksack was stolen with two cameras and Angus' passport. Don't worry, we still have one camera to entertain you with photos. We did get to have a ride in a police car and met a laughing policewoman. We then spent a very enjoyable week in the small village of Barreal, in San Juan province. The bus to get there takes hours as it goes along a steep mountain road and then drops everyone off individually at their houses. We stayed in a quaint adobe hotel with friendly staff. The village is ... read more

Bariloche is a bustling town in the Argentinian lake district and a great place for adventure sports and partying, we´ve had a great time here doing both. We joined Ben and Subhani again and started the week by celebrating our engagement with a bottle or two of champagne and some spicy food (a rarity in Argentina) in a Mexican restaurant. Most evenings seemed to follow a similar pattern and after clubbing until 5 in the morning on the last night (St. Partricks day, quite strange drinking local beer dyed green and Guiness in an Irish bar with a bagpipe player in an Argentinian town), we were pretty knackered. Daytime was also busy, we started with mountain biking, which was great until the pedel fell off my (Angus´s) bike, we kept going with the help of an ... read more

Dont´know where to start this one as its been a busy time since the last post. Fist some good news, we got the jobs in Malawi so should be starting in May working for the University of Malawi at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre. Here in South America took another long long bus journey from Ushuaia back across the Megellan straights (where we were accompanied for part of the journey by two Commerson's dolphins) to Punta Arenas in Chile and then further North to Puerto Natales. We stayed in a residencial (Gabriella) in Puerto Natales with the friendliest owner ever, an elderly lady who talked and talked and talked, all in Spanish so we did a fair bit of nodding and smiling but did usually manage to pick up the gist of it. I´m sure ... read more