The next day I bought a ticket to Puerto Madryn, about 700 miles south of Buenos Aires and one of the largest towns in Chubut province which, along with Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego provinces in Argentina, and Aisen and Magallanes in Chile is better known as Patagonia - a name so evocative of [...]

Back in Buenos Aires I got on the underground system, the Subte’, and headed back to Sandanzas. Fatigued after the overnight bus journey, I had a quiet day, and just walked around the city a bit more. The next major move was to head south to Patagonia, but before that I wanted to go to [...]

I got a bus from Cuidad del Este across the river to Foz do Iguassú in Brazil. Unfortunately, the bus didn’t stop at immigration so I found myself illegally in Brazil. I got a bus back, then walked to the immigration post on the Paraguayan side of the river, over the bridge, and into Brazil [...]

When I woke up in the morning we were flying over the delta of the Río Paraná, as it opens out into the huge Río de la Plata. It was a beautiful sunny morning as we touched down at Ezeiza airport. I got the first of what would be many Argentinian passport stamps and headed [...]

It was a cool, foggy morning on 18 October 2005 as I left Ealing for the airport. I’d been packing until 4am, and then left the house at 4.30am, so I had a hard time at Heathrow stopping myself from falling asleep and missing my flight. I managed it though, and flew west. I was [...]