Time to say goodbye to the Spanish language, for a while anyway!

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Nearing the halfway mark, 17 countries visited so far !
It's off to New Zealand next for a month, then onto Australia for another month or so & then we make our way back to Europe through Asia with a brief stop in Dubai, all going well we arrive back in Dublin on June 20th for a holiday (a little holiday within a holiday) before we travel back to Tossa to pick up the "Big Rig" & start our European leg.

Visited Countries Map































Our favourite countries list goes like this:

1) ARGENTINA (by far !)
2) GUATEMALA
3) ECUADOR
4) PANAMA
5) PERU
6) COSTA RICA
7) EL SALVADOR
8) NICARAGUA
9) CUBA
10) BOLIVIA
11) VENEZUELA
12) HONDURAS

* CHILE, BELIZE & MEXICO
We didn't rate Chile, Belize or Mexico as we spent so little time there. Mexico is somewhere we would go back to though. We spent less than a day visiting Paraguay & Brazil & so cannot comment but will one day make it to Brazil.........one day !

Our favourite places list goes something like this:

1) BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
2) GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR
3) INCA TRAIL & MACHU PICHU, PERU
4) BARILOCHE & THE LAKE DISTRICT, ARGENTINA
5) IGUAZU FALLS, ARGENTINA
6) EL CALAFATE & THE GLACIERS, ARGENTINA
7) LAGO ATITLAN, GUATEMALA
8) ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA
9) PUERTO VIEJO, COSTA RICA
10) BOQUETE, PANAMA
11) BOCAS DEL TORO, PANAMA
12) TIERRA DEL FUEGO, ARGENTINA
13) GRANADA, NICARAGUA
14) FLORES & TIKAL, GUATEMALA
15) SAN JUAN DEL SUR, NICARAGUA
16) PENINSULA VALDES, ARGENTINA

As always, thanks for reading (& most of you who look at the pictures), we enjoy reading all your comments, messages & emails.

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Photos

Time to go west !
Our well used Lonely Planet was worse for wear by the time we got to Chile.

Comments

[Poina and Noel]

Hello from China
Hi there Lads, keep the blogs coming, we are not relly doing ours anymore..... finding it hard to get to emails in China, the ole mandarin is hard to get your head around speaking and reading!!!!!! We only have about 7 weeks left at this stage.... yikes anyay safe travels and see you in Dublin to regale each other with travel stories. Take care, Poina and Noel

[Barry]

The Argies
Not too suprised to see Argentina on the top of the table lads!!! Really looked great...a good eyeopener for the future ...thanks :-)

[Sonya]

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Where's the run down of NZ and OZ??? I'm looking forward to hearing all about it. Thanks for the photos of Coogee, it was like stepping back 10 years. Enjoyed all the memories that came flooding back. Hope you're having a great time in Thailand. Sonya xxx