Hot and Steamy in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a city that makes you go ‘wow’, a place you can fall in love with at first sight. It’s hot and steamy and the architecture is truly incredible. Massive, soaring, majestic buildings, […]
Land of Ice and Snow
The thing that strikes me most about Antarctica is the vast emptiness. It is endless thousands of miles of nothing but ice and snow. There are no trees just the occasional simple lichen or moss […]
Antarctica
Now this is an adventure. We get on our ship, the ‘Ushuaia’, from (surprise) Ushuaia, right at the bottom tip of Argentina. As we are sailing out of the Beagle Channel towards Antarctica, we see […]
Torres del Paine
Standing on the street in icy sleet before I’m properly awake isn’t the best way to start the day. We were waiting for the bus to the Torres del Paine National Park at ridiculous o’clock, […]
In Patagonia, Chile
Patagonia is a huge and mysterious area of wilderness that stretches across both southern Chile and Argentina, bisected by the Andes mountains running down the middle and forming the border. It covers over a million […]
Down and up in Santiago and Chillan
I’d forgotten that thing about travelling – how most experiences are incredibly awesome but there’s always some that are totally shit. We hit our first bad patch in Santiago, Chile. Staying in a housing commission […]
Rapa Nui – Easter Island
It’s hard to believe I’m really here on Easter Island (real name ‘Rapa Nui’)! It’s one of my long time wishes come true. It’s even better than I imagined – magical, mysterious, fascinating, different. I […]
Rainy days in Faaone
The sea roars and the rain buckets down. We sit on our nice dry verandah and watch the waves crash on the beach. It’s such an unfamiliar bliss to have nothing to do and all […]
‘La ora na from Tahiti
On arrival at the airport in Papeete, capital of Tahiti, we are greeted by local musicians singing a traditional welcome and layers of heavenly-scented frangipani heaped around our necks by beautiful, happy smiley people. […]
