Category Archives: South America 2010-11

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Peninsula Valdes, Argentina

Today is the much anticipated visit to Peninsula Valdes and Puerto Madryn on the National Geographic Explorer to see the Southern Right Whales in their designated UNESCO World Heritage environment. Two days of sailing from […]

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Sleepless in Buenos Aires

This morning I give up trying to sleep at 5am. Buenos Aires is one of my favourite cities in the world, and the combination of being ferried around by bus and the requisite garbage collection […]

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Buenos Aires

It usually takes a lot to get me out of bed for a 5:30am start. Sadly my traditional remedies for jet lag have failed me completely, and I’m wide awake at 1:50am Buenos Aires time. […]