Feeling very historical.... walking in the footsteps of Eva Peron, Sarmiento, Che Guevarra and many other nameless argentinians who have contributed to history in their worlds! BA has been a great place to start the holiday... however one of the key lessions that I think that we can all learn from Buenos Aires is that no matter how many more lanes you add to a road, traffic jams will remain! Dave has become an amateur photographer so you will start to see some arty shots appearing on the web... however I am not really being the supportive wife that you would [View Full Entry]

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Well, it seems so soon to update yet again, but I feel like I have a lot to write so here goes! We just completed our 20 hour long flight to BA. Flew from Sydney to Auckland, stopped over for an hour, flew to Chile, stopped over for 2 hours, then flew to BA. Let me just make a few comments on air travel and airports in general. For starters - my pet peeve - why is it that they take off all our sharp implements like nail clippers, and then give us METAL forks on the plane? I mean, if [View Full Entry]

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Well, we're finally all packed and ready to go!! So now we enter that long wait until the airplane leaves - it's 1:15am, and I've got 6 hours before I have to leave for the airport. True to form, I have decided to stay up all night. Why? Well - I have this theory about jet lag. I figure that if I start acting as though I'm living in another timezone before I get to the timezone, then when I get there, I'm already acclimatized and hence no jet lag!! Catherine has a theory too, but it's not complimentary to me [View Full Entry]

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Well we're in sydney and about to head off on our first big adventure!! V busy packing and making sure that we see everyone that we need to as we will be away for a whole 4 months!! (ok that's not that long, but it feels like it ok?? Our plan so far: * buenos aires * peru * mexico city * New york * london * greece * turkey * tunisia * egypt * uganda * rwanda * kenya * hong kong * india * nepal (if the coup ends that is!) * cambodia Stay tuned for more updates as [View Full Entry]

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