Hi, Finally finally finally i´ve managed to get my email account back! So you´ll now no longer be receiving desperate pleas for money from me in Nigeria!! I only hope that no one actually fell for that.... Well as it happens this is my last full day in Buenos Aires, so I decided to go away to Uruguay if that makes sense... to a place called Colonia (3 hours by slow ferry and 50 mins by catamaran from BA). Well it sure seems like it might be a nice place - very tranquil and old worldy. Unfortunately the heavens opened today [View Full Entry]

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Sometimes I feel like I´m writing to myself on this blog, as I have only one subscriber so far! (you know who you are ) Anyway I´m now safely installed in a new and better homestay. The house is a proper apartment, by which i mean furnished nicely including the bedrooms and the woman i´m staying with is a 45+ year old accountant who is very kind and corrects my spanish all the time. Whatsmore she cooked me dinner last night too! I feel like I haven´t really made too much of my first weekend here. Mainly because the weathers been [View Full Entry]

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Well things have run smoothly up till now (mas o menos), so it was about time something would stuff up. I find myself homeless today after an interesting bust up with ice bitch landlady of past 4 days. Well she tried to rip me off, so I felt obliged to get her back, end result she was somewhat p´d off and I decided it would be best to leave. After a lazy afternoon, i phoned a new place at the appointed time to get a room only to find out i´d misunderstood the message (i should have phoned before the time [View Full Entry]

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Been in BA (as the locals seem to call it) for 2 days now. 2 very rainy days!! The rain started as soon as I left El Calafate in fact... a surprise - the plane went via Ushuaia on the way (well actually very out of the way) to BA - the most southerly town on the planet. I´d heard lots of good things about the place from fellow travellers so in a way it was a shame to be just passing through... however it turned out to be pouring with rain at the end of the earth (as I suspect [View Full Entry]

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Finally today is the day I fly back to Buenos Aires for my spanish course and some hard work! These last few days have actually turned out pretty fun - it´s strange how you come to know and love a place... and if you stay for more than a few days suddenly you´ll be walking down the street and be saying hello to everyone - you just get to know the faces of all the other backpackers in the same boat. Ok well, I should try to remember what happened since the glacier a few days back. One day was a [View Full Entry]

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Hey, Just got back from my day tour to Moreno glacier. That´s truly an amazing sight. By some crazy geographical coincidence a glacier that ends within about 20m of a penisular that you can view from. And plus there´s bits of ice cracking off noisily all the time - a real photographers dream. Well it was a beautiful day out there, till the last hour when the rain came... I´m going to post some photos asap, but alas I failed to get the classic iceberg falling off the glacier shot - typical as soon as your backs turned for a second [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone! Just back from 4 days camping in Los Glaciares National Park here in Patagonia. The first thing i should say about camping for 4 nights is that that´s a heck of a lot of food to carry. And stupidly I didn´t leave any of my stuff in the base town (El Chalten) on account of not liking the hostel i stayed in the night before the outing. So there I was hiking around with about 20kg in my rucksack! And whatsmore I ate all the nice food - 2 bars chocolate, biscuits, 4 peaches, cucumber, in the first two [View Full Entry]

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Got 10 mins to burn... Spent a very frustrating 5 hours waiting for my plane from buenos aires yesterday,,, eventually got to el calafate (patagonia) at about 11! First impressions,,, this place is sooo touristy. Full of restaurants and outdoor shops that only sell outdoor fashion! Haven´t managed to purchase a carrymat to replace the one that British Airways lost for me. And praying that i can get a refill camping gas tin somewhere. Anyway this morning i attempted to get to El Chalten, a place more set up for hiking. Bloody missed the 8am bus, despite the fact that I [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, Well i´m actually in Buenos Aires now, but thought i´d pretend i´m writing this in Rio just in case there´s some whizzy map which shows my route on this website. I´ve just been in Rio for the last 4 days, but somehow seems a lot longer. That´s a good thing though. Trip here was uneventful, except that a) BA lost my carry mat , b) rather confusingly I had to change in Sao Paulo, even though my plane from London was continuing on to Rio - some ticketing mix up which meant a frantic dash (well actually 30 min [View Full Entry]

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Well there's no point to this entry except to get things off the mark. It's one month to go till my trip and I'm starting to get a little nervous, not least because I've got to sort out renting out my house, finding a home for all my junk (including car!) and generally making sure I haven't forgotten anything important. [View Full Entry]

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