7 December (day 44) - Journey to the jungle We are definitely not going to be taking up careers at sea any time soon. James still felt dizzy this morning. We got to the airport with loads of time before our 9am flight. We sat waiting for our flight to be called and were slightly confused that our flight number came up on the board but it had Coca as the destination instead of Lago Agrio. We were told there was a connection to Lago Agrio so we boarded the plane. After 30 minutes we landed at Coca and were told [View Full Entry]

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In a bored moment on the very dull plane journey to Quito we decided to be true to our professions and come up with some statistics for our trip so far so here is what we worked out: Number of days so far 37 Number of beds slept in 23 Number of photos taken 1,982 Number of photos kept 819 Amount over budget £500 Number of modes of transport 14 Number of journeys and distance travelled in each form of transport: 1. Plane (excluding flight from UK) 9 journeys (13,732km) 2. Hire car 3 journeys (6,0 [View Full Entry]

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Since I last wrote, we have been taking life at a slightly slower pace, well that is until we climbed a 6056m volcano yesterday but more on that later. 20 November (day 27) - Travelling to Mendoza There is something slightly crazy about flying from Bariloche to Mendoza via Buenos Aires (if you look on a map you will see why), but that is what we had to do. We turned up at the airport slightly early as we knew giving back the car could take a while, only to find that our flight was at 12.30pm and not 11.30am - [View Full Entry]

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13 November (day 20) continued - El Bolson We liked our first glimpse of the lake district - large mountains dropping down into beautiful clear lakes. On arrival in El Bolson we followed the trusty Lonely Planet's two best sounding accommodation options only to find that they were both shut. Our third choice was fully booked. On our loops around the town (even the smallest towns have grid systems with mainly one way roads so we have got accustomed to driving round in circles), we had spotted the shabby looking Amancay Hotel so decided to investigate. It had a room, albeit [View Full Entry]

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9 November (day 16) - El Calafate We slept very well and could have slept for another 12 hours but dragged ourselves up at 8.30am for breakfast. Marcela cooked James some eggs and we watched a bit of very bad Chilean daytime TV before packing up the car and leaving to return to Argentina. The border crossing was no less eventful than on the way through. First at the Argentine border we got our passports stamped and returned to the car only to find that after 10 minutes of waiting they still hadn't opened the gate. It turned out we hadn't [View Full Entry]

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We intended to send episode number 2 of our blog about a week ago but for reasons that you will discover in episode 3 which will follow very shortly, we have been in the middle of nowhere with no internet or mobile reception for the last few days. 2 November (day 9) - Peninsula Valdes The 5.15am start wasn't too bad, especially as they didn't serve breakfast on the plane (they had forgotten to load it on) so we managed to sleep the whole way. James is actually a closet plane spotter as he loves telling me what kind of plane [View Full Entry]

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Here is the first entry in our much debated blog. James' view on blogs is similar to anything else to do with technology ie they are rubbish. Having enjoyed reading what my friends have been up to on their travels, I don't agree and think it is only right that we should bore you with what we are up to during our 9 weeks away. I was going to promise to keep it short and sweet, with pictures if we can work the technology (this could be a challenge given the trouble we had installing skype onto our laptop), however, anyone [View Full Entry]

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