Somewhere over the rainbow

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Well another country and stamp in our passports. It turned out to be cheaper to fly and have 2 nights accommodation than catch the 36 hour bus to Iguazu from Mendoza! So on Friday we boarded our TAM flights to …

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New Patagonian Galleries

Hi, just managed to get up to date with the photo galleries. There are four new galleries in the ‘Americas’ section showing photos of our travels from the Argentinian Lakes down the Ruta 40 into Patagonia and back up the …

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Trekking Fitzroy

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Wow, we have just returned from a wonderful 3 day trek from El Chalten to see Cerro Fitz Roy and Cerro Torros. After our torrents of rain in the Torres Del Paine we have been blessed with sunshine, blue skies …

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A Ruta 40 Playlist

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We have spent the last four days driving down from the Lakes District through Argentina to cross back over the border today to Chilean Puerto Natales. This is the furthest south we plan to drive and we’ll spend the next …

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Six go to the Lakes District

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As we left the hot dusty desert and freewheeled into Tecka hoping to make it before we ran out of fuel, the pointy snowy peaks of the Andes came into sight. A huge smile crossed our faces not only that …

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Goodbye Nanna and Grandad

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We have sadly left Nanna and Grandad at the airport, it was very sad but we have had a fabulous time with them. Here are some of the things we will always remember. Meeting them but having to wait a …

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Driving us Dotty

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Once again, it’s been a while since we wrote anything here and now you’ll see a sudden flurry of posts and photos. The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, we have been having some trouble with Dotty, our van, which …

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Following in Welsh footsteps.

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In May 1865, a boat called ‘Mimosa’ brought a boat full of Welsh settlers to Patagonia in search of new land where they could set up a new protected Welsh culture.  They disembarked in Puerto Madryn where we arrived this …

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Penguin Pandemonium

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In Patagonia there is a large colony of Magellanic penguins. We went to see them and got to walk through their nesting grounds. They were waddling and swimming and they were flapping and calling to each other. We followed a …

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Roar!!!

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Today we went to see dinosaurs in this really cool place. It was called ‘Centro Paleontologico logo barreales’. We drove into the middle of a desert along a gravel road that was really bumpy in Dotty. There were oil wells …

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