For our final stop in 2009 we arrived at an estancia in the heartland of the Buenos Aires province known as the ‘Pampas‘. This is an enormous fertile plain where the legendary gauchos (pampas cowboys) roam managing farms and herding huge numbers of cattle. We were staying on an estancia 2.5hours south west of Buenos […]

At last the wind has abated. It is now just a stiff breeze blowing across the flat, dry ground. This is normal. Windmills twist slowly, sighing and creaking as they draw water to the surface, the sun was high and burning hot and the gauchos and sheep-dogs were ushering their charges into their pens. Horses […]

We drive to Puerto Madryn to watch the whales that come into a very large lagoon with their babies before setting off for the cooler Antarctic waters. On the way, Debbie clocks up yet more roadkill. She now has 4 spiders and two snakes to her credit while I have yet to get off the […]

Today we have a 600km dash across Argentina to the Atlantic coast to pick up Daniel who has flown out for Christmas in a most convoluted route that took in Toronto, Santiago and Buenos Aires before arriving in Trelew (another Welsh outpost). After 3 hours, 5th gear returned (French car remember). The trick is to […]

Onwards another 290kms south to a town called Esquel on the borders of a National park called Los Alerces. It was originally an offshoot of a Welsh Colony at Chubut and still has something of a pioneer feel about it being an open town in the middle of fertile, breezy valley with a backdrop of […]