http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Vicster/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Vicster en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:40:01 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:40:01 +0000 My second weekend off i ventured up to the northeastern tip of Argentina to visit the Iguazu Falls. They might not technically be the tallest or the most powerful waterfalls in the world Niagra and Victoria take those honours but my god they're spectacular. One of my favourite places in Argentina. I'd seen them in photos and stuff but still the first sight of them in real life completely k http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Misiones/Puerto-Iguaz-/blog-92938.html My first time off after 3 weeks working at the ranch my god it was a hard slog Anne and I spent the weekend at Ibera Provincial Reserve. Well technically we were staying at the tiny town of Carlos Pellegrini population 500 or so but the town is right next to the reserve. The reserve is very new only 25 years old i think so the alligators are all young and not too big because there wer http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Carlos-Pellegrini/blog-92123.html Ive finally started my life as a cowgirl I arrived at the Haras Monday afternoon the date of this entry tho I am in fact writing this somewhat later and after a quick welcome got stuck straight into work...The first few weeks at the ranch werent so great. I quickly realised I wouldnt be learning as much as Id hoped both in terms of improving my Spanish cos i mainly work with the other http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Corrientes/Mercedes/blog-92936.html Ive spent the last 2 weeks studying Spanish in Cordoba in between partying exploring the sierras and stuffing my face in wonderfully cheap restaurants. Its been eerily like being back at highschool i set my alarm for 7 and get up half an hour later miss the bus I need to take and arrive at school slightly late for my 9 oclock start. Only everyone works to 'Argentinean time' over here http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-86563.html The plane touched down in BA thursday morning 16 hours after leaving the sniffer dogs and scary policemen with big black guns at Heathrow. Trust me to fly on the day people were planning on blowing up all the planes from london Still I made it to Argentina without incident nicely full after 3 surprisingly tasty British Airways meals. And I'm proud to say my backpack weighed just 14.6kg Go http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-83269.html Four years in Swanseahellipquite a large chunk of my life Needless to say leaving it all was quite sad. For a lsquopretty shity cityrsquo i've had some rather excellent times. So goodbye Mary Williams and JCs and Time and Jitsu and Discovery and the beach and the park and the bbqs and the housecrawls. but Irsquom sure Irsquoll be back to visit. Anyhoo I celebrated my leaving in th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Swansea/blog-79266.html This is a trip Irsquove been planning for quite some time. Irsquove had this vague notion of going travelling since I was in 6th Form but I didnrsquot start to think about it properly till I graduated from Uni last summer. Since then the saving and planning has taken far longer than I anticipated and Irsquove changed my mind about where I want to go and what I want to do a million time http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Surrey/blog-79176.html