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It was a bad ball bearing day. New ones were fitted to Richard´s front hub, and I had new pedals for my bike, as no more new bearings were to be found. Thus refurbished, we bade fond farewell to Ramon and his family, getting up extra early to wave them off to their respective workplaces. Mother Tina saw us off with presents of chocolate rabbits and easter eggs to complement our new collection of cuddly toys. A few kilometers later I chuckled when I bit into my chocolate egg to discover a small plastic spanner and a hoard of sugar ball bearings. What a fun family! I was glad that we had coached them into a perfect rendition of "Och aye the noo" in readiness for Nick and Vicky´s visit in a few days´time. Thus fortified ... read more
Climb to San Antonio de Cobres
Santa Rosa de Tastil
Abra Blanca


After a hectic (!) week at work which saw our first pay day (hoorah!!) and Russ’s debut teaching session at the airport, we headed out to San Salvador de Jujuy (often simply called Jujuy) for a brief visit. The plan was to stay the whole weekend but we didn’t leave Salta until Saturday lunchtime and we were not sufficiently impressed with the capital of the Jujuy province to justify staying beyond Sunday lunchtime! We had expected the bus journey to take an hour an a half but intermediate stops at Guemes, Perico and Palpala added over an hour on! Then we couldn’t get into the hostel we wanted to stay in as it was full. Luckily though we found Hostal Los Colorados which was quiet, comfortable and cheap. We seemed to be the only guests and ... read more
General Belgrano in Plaza Belgrano
The Cathedral
Casa del Gobierno


I had great expectations of writing this blog and making it really cool and interesting... Now I've freezing cold hands and my eyes are destroyed. Ah but I'll give it a go. Please forgive my spelling. We came back into Arg via Resistencia from Asuncion after having spent about 5 weeks in Paraguay(damn I have to write about that too, another day) and went straight to Jujuy. We looked around and went to the cathedral, a few museums and a workshop where they paint archangels sporting weapons- something about the Spanish invasion and how the Spanish soldiers were portrayed as angels bringing Catholocism to the ignorant natives! ANYWAY spent 2 nights there and then got a bus to Humahuaca, in La Quebrada de Humahuaca which is about 2 hours north of Jujuy. Amazing scenery all the ... read more
Kids in Cianzo
The poor donkey
On the way to Iruya

South America » Argentina » Jujuy » San Salvador de Jujuy February 28th 2006

Well, here I am spending the last or second to last night in Argentina catching up on emails and journals. The last 3 to 4 weeks with Carolyn have been very full and exciting ones. We have travelled the length of the coast down one side of the country and up the other side. I have worked out that in the last 4 weeks we have spent 120 hours on buses and taken one 3 hr flight from Ushuaia, the southern most city in the world half way back up the east coast which saved us another 24hr bus ride. Out of interest in the past 20 weeks in South America I have sat 313hrs on buses......Anyhow, about few of the places we have visited over the last 4 weeks include Ushuaia, as mentioned, here we ... read more


- FOOD: Steak (yeah) with blood (yeah again) and nice wine (mmmm). Thank you Argentina. - AREA: 2 horrible border towns but then ahhh, what sophistication - smooth roads with ROAD MARKINGS!, proper pavements, shop with a big choice of goods. Lots of illuminated signs which did my head in. Luxury hotel with lots of goodies. - PEOPLE: Are fashionable! Police manically blowing whistles in an attempt to control the traffic. - WEATHER: Hot sun - how nice. Tues 31st May: A 3am alarm wake up was not so nice to get the bus to Villazón, a horrible border town. We had to walk through the town to get to the border which wasn´t the nicest experience but made more amusing by Joke losing her patience with the 100th kid who was hassling us about where ... read more

South America » Argentina » Jujuy » San Salvador de Jujuy January 13th 2005

Impresionante. Inmenso. Brillante.... read more




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