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A flying trip of Peru and Christmas with the family

Monday, January 8th, 2007

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

Finally I have got around to updating the website properly with our travels (see posts below this one for our bike adventures). We are now in Buenos Aires after a whirlwind christmas travelling trip with my entire family for a month. We go back down to El Chaltén in Patagonia to get back on the bikes and start riding north again in 2 days. In the meanwhile here is a little bit of a rundown of how our holiday season progressed. I have put the pics in as thumbnails, giving you the choice of opening them (remember they don’t open in a new window, you have to use the ‘back’ button) seeing as most of them are from Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca which in my opinion are slightly over-photographed. So if you’ve seen enough and you don’t want to see ANOTHER photo of Machu Picchu don’t bother!

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Las Leñas II

Friday, July 21st, 2006

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After the powder drenched fun of our last expedition to Las Leñas, Argentina’s premier ski resort in Mendoza, we thought we’d go again a bit earlier in the season to beat the winter holiday crowds. We left as quickly as possible after getting back from a long stint at work and made it to a cheap hotel in La Rioja, giving us an easy push onto Mendoza the next day. We started early and caught a fantastic sunrise somewhere near Chepes.

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General Update -nearly a year in South America

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

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Aconcagua in 'summer' - April 2006. 

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Aconcagua in winter - September 2005.   This is the new website for now, the other was becoming a ... [Continue reading this entry]