and now alone in buenos aires, i feel really small. Initially thought the city was a bit of a hole, but it has now really grown on me. The most shocking fact I've learnt is that around 70,000 people went missing during the military dictatorsship between 1978 - 83, these people who dared to think differently were just snatched off the street and dropped out of the sky into the river. Many babies born the same year as me, just disappeared.I have to think about ...

spending a few days in bariloche, the lake district. The lake Nahuel Huapi is the size of an ocean, (100km wide), and very dramatic when you are descending on the plane down towards it.  We have the view of it from our window. We were up some mountains today with the most jaw dropping scenery you could ever imagine. The food is lush and we really are getting fat, grilled lamb, trout, ice cream, apple strudel etc etc 3 stone later. There are more indigen...

at last we are in buenos aires, we arrived off the boat from montevideo last nite. Jon and I had a row, and he fuct off in to the nite with his bag on his back looking like a ridiculous over grown turtle. He has no spanish, (apart from guapa) no common sense, and had 50 bucks on him.I got in to a taxi and went to a hotel, I met some lovely people who cooked for me, and whilst I sat there enjoying the ambience, at the far back of my mind I sometimes hoped that som...