…I couldn’t get through a whole bottle in the two days I have here, drinking alone it just seems a waste. So I’m sipping my way through a hip flask of pisco and making picola instead…pisco and cola! Just tastes like straight coke but goes straight to my head!
happy happy
feeling on top at the bottom of the world
/ 29/11/2012I can remember learning how to say “Tierra del Fuego” when I had an assignment to research the Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan in primary school. Fuego means fire and the way it rolls off the tongue reminds me of the gentle fanning of flames you breathe into a new camp…
so, where did you eat lunch today?
/ 19/11/2012I had a picture on my wall at work for a while of a very special place. Gill and I found pictures of our dream destinations and put a window frame around them to give us a view at work instead of brilliant beige. Mine was a picture of the…
best. day.
/ 17/11/2012Just around the southern point of Puerto Madryn, after an easy 15-20mins boat ride lives a colony of sea lions. Raucous bulls, cows and pups lounge on the lower cliffs and share the space with numerous sea birds. And I got in the water with them. Es muy fantastico! Before…
happy feet everywhere and not a Mumble in sight
/ 17/11/2012Wednesday’s excursion into the world of natural wonders is brought to you from Punta Tombo, land of over 170,000 breeding pairs of Magellanic penguins. A decent drive south from Puerto Madryn finds you at a rookery unlike anything I had expected. I mean, penguins live on the ice, right? As…