ARGENTINA

After harrassing many of you to comment on our fabulous blog, we haven´t even updated in months...thanks for all your lovely comments and we will try and update more regularly.

We are currently in Bolivia however since our last blog we have travelled through Argentina, Brasil and now here....

Argentina was amazing and we throughly recommend you visit it, as it is cheap and beautiful.

We entered by bus into Bariloche which gave Andy his first taste of meat...

Then onto Mendozza, where we spent Christmas and met a lovely couple, Kelly and Gonzalo who own the Irish pub in Mendoza, what a blast. They also took us out for Christmas Eve to an open air party surrounded by the Andes mountains, when the sun started to come up it was amazing.

After Mendoza we headed to the capital, Buenos Aires and spent NYE with some Irish friends that we had met on the Torres Del Paine walk, Lenny and Catherine.

After a busy NY, we went and visited Kelly and Gonzalo again at their beach house which was 4 hours south of BA in a place called Mar Del Plata. We looked and felt like Casper the Ghost amongst all those gorgeous tanned Argentines, however it was a lovely place to relax and swim.

Then it was back to Buenos Aires for a few days before we flew to Brasil. You wouldn´t believe it, we got upgraded to Business Class, it was pretty funny as we both had collars on our shirts however when we walked away from the counter the guy could see us in shorts and thongs, very classy. Then it was french champagne all the way!! (who upgrades two people checking through backpacks as their luggage??)

Stay tuned for the next installment

Take care and lots of Love Anna and Andy

xxx

Chile

Part One: Chile

Just a quick note to all - we have had to set this whole thing up in Espanol, so if it doesn't make sense or if you are getting it in Spanish, we apologise and will endevour to fix it....(If it's Spanish you probably can't understand this anyway..)

After leaving Sydney at lunchtime on Sunday we finally arrived at Santiago 2 hours later(well thats in Santiago time anyway). As you can imagine it was a very long day. With no sleep on the 16 hour journey we broke all of the jet lag rules and went to bed until 10pm.

That night turned into an eye-opener of the Santiago gay scene. While having an after dinner beer we met 2 lovely locals Joel and Martin who took us out dancing and since it was lunchtime by our clocks we happily salsa'd until dawn with the best of them.

Our week in Santiago was great and we settled into the Bellavista area easily meeting lots of great locals.

Then it was onto Patagonia - we did it!! It being the "W" circuit in the Torres del Paine (Towers of Pain) National Park.If any of you think you've been on a big walk, think again my friends as this is a hardcore 5 day straight trek with limited sleep in cold refugios along the way, full of snoring tourists. Some were so loud like a freight train that nicknames such as 6.15 started to stick..

However this was easily one of the best weeks of our lives and fortunately we met some great people, 6.15 is one of them (he is pictured with Andy) and a group of Irish that were awesome and who we might spend Christmas with in Buenos Aires if we get there in time.

Anyway we have just arrived in Argentina so we will blog again in a month, when we hit the next country...

Take care and lots of Love

Anna and Andy