Thank You
I have just arrived back in Spain after 5 months on the road, and what a ride it has been; certain people have followed by trip the entire way on my blog, and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. It’s very early to have a certain view on the trip in retrospect, [...]
Most Corrupt Country Outside Africa; Paraguay Here I Come!
Getting to Paraguay proved a lot harder, then I had initially thought. I had hoped to get the 9 o’clock bus to Ciudad Del Este, which would drive straight through Brazil, so that I wouldn’t have to get off and do the border formalities. However I woke up at 9.40, and thus was unable to [...]
Transport + Iguazu Falls
29th of March: Nothing major, ate my breakfast, tried to send some more DVD’s to my father, but the post office was closed (Saturday). I said goodbye to whoever was around (Karen and Ilene had left the previous day; James and Steve was nowhere to be found), such people as Danny and Anne Dorthe. I [...]
Football Game
My last whole day in Buenos Aires; Steve and James were suddenly wielding new English books, so I asked where they got them, and hastened to the shop. The shop is a second-hand bookstore (I’m not complaining, I’m cheering) where I bought, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and after lots of searching, Post-Captain by Patrick O’Brien; [...]
Recoleta
I started the day out by going to the Recoleta cemetery, the cemetery where famous people from Argentina are buried. The day before I had agreed with Anne Dorthe to go the Recoleta cemetery, so the two of us went. We walked all the way there, and at the entrance donated some money to an [...]
Malos Aires
I’m not sure if the translation is correct, but today… There is no good air in Buenos Aires, my eyes sometimes even start watering sometimes when I’m near especially polluted streets. Breakfast was rather simple, bread with different types of jam I don’t like, so I just ate a lot of bread and set out [...]
Santiago -> Buenos Aires
24th of March: I got up early and cooked some porage (the local bakery doesn’t open until 8.30, so no bread or eggs), and took the metro to the bus terminal. The metro in Santiago is rather unique (as to what I have seen), they took a lot of trains, took the normal wheels off [...]
The Oregon Girl
I woke up and had the included breakfast, for the first time in Bariloche not having a specific time to get up. It didn’t take long before Dave left as his bus was at 12 o’clock, it was a good goodbye, we had traveled together for only a week, but Dave is a thoroughly good [...]
7 Lakes + Extra Day
8th of March (pictures on flickr): Dave and I got up early as we had to meet Eyal and Rachel early for the car. We ate some of the wonderful breakfast the hostel serves and went to the Marco Polo Inn (where Eyal and Rachel stays), where we found out that Rachel was ill and [...]
A Day In Bariloche
Eyal and Rachel (of Futaleufú) had told Dave and me, about a plan which involved renting a car and driving around the seven lakes. So after eating the great breakfast at our hostel, Dave and I met up with Eyal and Rachel and tried some car rental agencies, before settling on a cheap Fiat Siena [...]
Going To Bariloche
Dave and I woke up late (10 o’clock with checkout at 11) but made it and went to buy a bus-ticket to El Bariloche, giving ourselves enough time to take a second look at the market (it’s on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays), and get one last of the great Jauja ice creams in El Bolsón [...]
Cajon Del Azul
We got up at 6.45 when Dave woke up (my watch failed to wake me up), and there in the morning decided to return the same day; we wanted to cook breakfast at the hostel, but due to the early hour we were up, the kitchen was locked, so we just headed off with no [...]
The Artisan Market
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday there is a renowned handicraft market in El Bolsón, it runs from 11 to 16-18 so Dave and I had decided to get up in time to get there when it opens, in fact we hadn’t imagined that we wouldn’t be awake for it, but true enough we woke up [...]
Another Day In Futaleufu + El Bolsón
2nd of March: Today Dave, Eddie and I were supposed to go on a dayhike, but they had been invited to go to lunch at the house of a local family, so during the entire day… Not much happened. For dinner Eddie was supposed to cook, but after the huge lunch he and Dave had [...]
Short Tales
Monty: Monty is a cat living at the erratic rock hostel in Puerto Natales. When it first came around the operators thought it belonged to another American who lives in the area, she has an entirely black cat as well called Vladimir. After 3 days they discovered that it wasn’t Vladimir, and Kat, (ironic yeah) [...]
20th of February -> 26th of February
Because I am a fair share of days behind (due to the big post from Torres Del Paine), I will put the next couple of days in one big post to avoid spam. Please note that even though I link to some of my pictures here, there are far more pictures on my flickr page. [...]
3:30; going to Chile
3:30 is the time I got up to catch the bus to Punta Arenas (Chile). The bus didn’t leave till 5:30, but I always like having plenty of time in the morning. In the “lobby/common room” of the hostel, I met two Brits whom I had met the previous day at Laguna Esmeralda, and who [...]
Hey Guachin
Woke up very late (11), but still managed to do my morning routine, cook and eat breakfast and start waiting before we left. We were planning to take a bus out there, we had been told that it would cost 20 peso per person, but the conductor told us that it was 30, something which [...]
Glacier Martial
Yesterday (3rd of February), I didn’t do much and decided not to write about it, instead I’m gonna include what little happened here. I bought a new pen as I had lost my old one (sorry mother), it turned out to be black with glittery silver stuff in it, it would squash what you had [...]
Time in Ushuaia
New pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twaize/ This has been one of the days with nothing really to do, tomorrow I’m gonna go up to the local glacier; instead I had time to convert a lot of pictures for flickr, and I thought I might try and reflect on the time I have had so far. Lonely Planet writes [...]
Das Boot
I didn’t get out of bed before roughly 10 in the morning, did my morning routine and went down to make breakfast (the usual) and set out for a supermarket, so that I had some decent food for lunch. I knew I would have to spend a lot of days here in Ushuaia, and so [...]
Feuerland
Tierra del Fuego, Land of Fire or Feuerland (German) 1st of February. I woke up at 8 thinking it was midday, turned out I’m so far south I had totally lost my bearing on time. I was alone in my room so I made plenty of noise, and found my way to an icy cold [...]
My Way to the Worlds Southernmost City
Delays… I got up at 6 in the morning, did my morning routine, made oatmeal and walked my way down to the bus terminal. So there I was at 7.30 waiting for my 8.00 bus which of course didn’t turn up till 8.30 and didn’t leave before 9.10. However Tim made the waiting easy; Tim [...]
Waiting
Rio Gallegos might not have been exciting yesterday, but at least I hadn’t seen it. However this was the day when I made my first lunch (egg in a basket) and dinner (ham omelet). The first supermarket I went to, didn’t have eggs, oat, butter or lettuce. So I had to go to a rather [...]
