Buenos Aires has certainly lived up to all expectations! We have spent a week here now and have loved every minute.  Since we have been here we have been on a city tour to see the major sites, including the colourful La Boca district where people dance in the street. We have gone on a tour of the opera house, seen the Evita museum, a huge grave yard where she is buried and been to a zoo (where I saw my first real life polar bear).  A lot ...

Buenos Aires has certainly lived up to all expectations! We have spent a week here now and have loved every minute.  Since we have been here we have been on a city tour to see the major sites, including the colourful La Boca district where people dance in the street. We have gone on a tour of the opera house, seen the Evita museum, a huge grave yard where she is buried and been to a zoo (where I saw my first real life polar bear).  A lot ...

Another gruelling night bus brought us to Uruguay. I say gruelling but the seats are like first clss on a plane and they come round with blankets, food and champagne. You don´t get that on the National Express. It could only happen to me - I got locked in the on- board toilet (the bus doesn´t stop for 12 hours, which is the only reason why I had to resort to this option). There wasn´t even a panic button, and I was panicking. Eventuall...

After 21 hours travelling on a bus we arrived at Iguassu Falls. It was on this journey that I became the current reigning champion of Fluffy Bunny. One has to shove as many marshmellows in to one´s mouth as possible and say fluffy bunny until they can go on no longer. So either I had the best technique or the biggest mouth?! Iguassu Falls are some of the largest waterfalls in the world - they are truly stunning. They are on the border between Brazil an...

The next stop is Paraty. We are on an organised tour at the minute - 12 in a group being herded around, told what bus to get onto, where to sleep, what time to go out etc, it certainly makes for an easier life! Paraty is a small Brazilian town which has given us a bit more of a taste of Brazilian life. Brazil is a stunning country. Everywhere is green and mountainous, however, there is a great deal of poverty too. On the one day of sunshine we have had,...