Villa Maria Lodge Rio Grande

Ian here for a change! After a tip off from the super and very friendly aeroclub in Ushuaia we headed back towards Rio Grande on Tierra del Fuego in search of a mystery Auster located on an Estancia on TDF. After finding the Estancia we met the owner an old gent called Adrian who eerily spoke excellent English, perhaps handed down from the original Estancia settling ancestors ?! He was delighted to reply to my question that yes, he did have an Auster, and would ...

On the move once more, on the edge of the town we got stopped at a police checkpoint and one of them asked for a lift to the border, unfortunately he could not speak much English so it was a fairly quite time. On arrival at the border we parked up and went in, at the first desk, easily found as it had a large one written up we handed over the passports and got stamped out. At the same desk they gave us a piece of paper which we had to get stamped at each desk as proof of attendance, a ...

... portugués és més recordada que cap altra; doncs aquella histňria és historia que crema, és foc, perque és simbol, i ja no perteneix al Magallanes ni al basc que l'acompanyava, sino a la humanitat sencera. És la historia d'allň que som: viatjants, inmigrants, exploradors sempre amb la mŕ a la visera, éssers curiosos capacos de ...

... a little town called Rio Grande. Not much there and we decided on a homemade salad in our hotel (Atlantida) and a movie was about all we could be bothered doing. Mark 21/3: - Good Friday and not an Easter Egg to be seen! I have never seen anyone get so excited over a bunch of birds. For the past couple of weeks this was going to be Bec´s highlight of the trip and she certainly showed some ...

... somwhere in the middle of nowhere. Run down houses next to brand new ones guarded by massive dogs. We went o the supermarket, got some money and since there was nothing to do we went back to have dinner and go to sleep. Surprisingly I slept great - I woke up ones to open the window since it was very hot and to listen to the snoring of several ...

... for desert but I had wine so didn´t bother. People seemed to really enjoy the meal anyway (at 1115 you´d probably appreciate anything but it was good). Despite the laughs still had my quiet times and smoked way too much outside. Couldn´t be bothered to have a shower and headed to bed 100. Before i climbed to the fdance studio had a laugh with a few people about all the snoring upstairs. Bed130. Thankfully, I fell asleep easily and slept through the night.

The day started started out cool with 80km winds, then it got windy. This made for very interesting driving conditions. We had to hold on tight to what was ours (including our heads) or the wind would have taken it. We started out in Argentina, crossed into Chile then back into Argentina. There is no less paperwork or any shortcuts for having already crossed the border ...

... drove to Tolhuin, and then cape San Pablo. There was a beach, the ocean covered by clouds, a light rain, the noise of the waves, and a huge shadow appearing in the fog. We visited the shipwreck. On the way we saw several beaver (castor) dams and houses, though we did not actually see any ...

... ourselves last minute berths on a 12 day trip departing in a weeks time. We whiled away the time with admin, a hike up to a glacier, reading up on penguins, admiring the world's biggest private yacht, Octopus (see the pics), and buying ourselves some more warm clothes and tried to push the fact that we had two, two and a half days sails across the roughest seas in the world, the Southern Ocean.

yo, another entry--simply have to do this: i have landed at the end of the world, in ushuaia in the very very south of argentina. i had a GREAT day yday in buenos aires. first we saw the football world cup qualifier 2006 between argentina and uruguay (4:2) and then we drank until we finally went out at 2am to a club called opera bay which must be THE BEST CLUB i have ever been to. honestly, apart from ...