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A very rapid update……

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

I apologise, I have been quite terrible in my blogging updates… to the point where I would imagine you have all given up on reading this anyway!

But a very rapid update on the end of my travels (hopefully one day I’ll have time to go back and expand – for me more than you) before we move on to the next adventure……

After meeting Pauls parents in Buenos Aires we spent a month with them exploring Argentina and Chile; whale watching at Puerto Madryn, climbed the volcano in Pucon and ate lots of fabulous steak!

After the Tucknott’s left Paul and I spent our last few days in South America in Santiago, Chile, before flying to New Zealand (incredibly sad to leave South America) on 1st December.For a month in New Zealand we hired a camper van and toured north and south Islands, visiting quite a few friends on the way. Sadly the weather was pretty rubbish, but that didn’t stop us skydiving and bungee jumping (well I didn’t bungee but I did jump out of a plane!) Spent Christmas in Nelson and managed to BBQ just before the heavens opened!

From New Zealand we headed to Fiji for New Year, arriving on Vorovoro (Tribewanted Island) just in time for a very messy New Years Eve party. We had planned to spend 10 days on Vorovoro but when the time came to leave I decided to stay until the end of the month, whilst Paul went on to explore Australia.

We met up again in Melbourne at the beginning of February and spent a week with a hire car touring the Great Ocean Road and the wine tasting region around Melbourne.

From Melbourne Paul went on to spend his last 10 days in Hong Kong, whilst I stayed to visit family, and in fact ended up back in Fiji for my last week.

48 crazy hours in Hong Kong on the way back and it was 23rd February again and I was on the plane home to rainy old London and little old Guernsey.

An incredible, indescribable trip.

Paul and his “maternal” side…..?

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007



Volunteering

Originally uploaded by kathsmee.

Thought I would blog a few pictures. This is Paul with the kids we volunteered with in Bariloche, see he´s quite a softie really.

After reading him a story the little boy on Paul´s lap had the cheek to ask him for two pesos for a job well done!

The kids were hard work and hugely unimpressed by our Spanish, but they were great fun.

The road to Catchi

Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Ill as I was (and it was touch and go there for a while but I´m a fighter!) I roused myself at 6:30 the next morning to climb into the back of our 4x4 to start the trip to Catchi ... [Continue reading this entry]

Seeking out sunshine in Salta….

Friday, June 22nd, 2007
After nearly two months in Patagonia Tucky and I both decided that we were ready for some sunshine, also that we were running out of time if we were going to see any other countries before we have to head ... [Continue reading this entry]

A long and dusty road…..

Friday, June 1st, 2007
Aaaaghhhhhhh, seven and a half hours in an internet cafe and my fingers are about to fall off..... so Tucky has written this last account... good luck. And so after the Spanish was finished we collected our fine hire car, a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Bariloche and Birthdays

Friday, June 1st, 2007
The next morning we were on an early bus back to Puerto Montt and on to Bariloche to start our next phase of Spanish courses. Bariloche is in Argentina, at the foot of the Andes in an area known as ... [Continue reading this entry]

How to make the perfect ice cube

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Perito Moreno Glacier (29)
Originally uploaded by kathsmee. ... [Continue reading this entry]

¿donde los pingüinos?

Friday, June 1st, 2007

El fin del Mundo

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Ushuaia
Originally uploaded by kathsmee.
From Buenos Aires ... [Continue reading this entry]

Back to BA

Friday, June 1st, 2007