Category: Daily Posts

Today we arrived in Puerto Madryn, Patagonia, Argentina. We disembarked at 8.30 and jumped straight on a coach which took us directly to the north east point of the Peninsula Valdes, Punta Norte, a rather long and uncomfortable drive over dirt roads once we had left town. After shuddering and…

Argentina Argentina is the 2nd largest country in South America and the 8th largest in the world with a land area of 1.074 million square miles and a population of 47 million. The country was colonised in the 16th century following the arrival of Amerigo Vespucci. The country’s highest point…

Today there was a significant change in the weather, yesterday being a blazing hot 37 degrees and today a rainy 24 degrees. We therefore decided to check out the Museo Nacional de Bella Artes. This pleasant museum has some excellent works by some of the biggest hitters, namely Degas, Manet,…

Buenos Aires, Argentina Today we arrived in Buenos Aires – woohoo!! What a stunning city! It is incredibly beautiful, has more magnificent architecture than you can shake a stick at, has countless wide and shady parks, is sophisticated, chic and has a very European vibe. In fact, 90% of its…

Hmmm… what to say about Montevideo 🤨 We went ashore at 9.30 am and, it being a Sunday, found ourselves somehow apparently transported to the set of The Walking Dead. Absolutely nothing was open, all shops and cafes were shuttered down and not a soul was in sight. Garbage and…

Spanish Classes Since leaving Brazil, Spanish lessons have appeared on the Daily Programme of Events, so this morning Bridge dragged Paul along for the purpose of acquiring a few key phrases. Having missed yesterday’s introduction, we found ourselves staring gormlessly at the screen whilst struggling to get to grips with…

Newcomers… Every time the ship reaches the end of a ‘leg’ of our grand voyage, a whole bunch of passengers disembark and a whole new crowd gets on board. The last time this happened was in Rio yesterday, when 400 passengers disembarked and were replaced with 400 new ones. Although…

Today we decided to go it alone instead of joining an organised tour, so this morning we disembarked the ship at 9 am and walked to the Saara Market, a huge local market, which was much more interesting than the various large indoor malls catering to tourists. After a good…

At long last we are in Rio! The second most populous city in Brazil (after Sao Paulo), it was founded in 1565 by the Portuguese. In 1763 it became the capital of Brazil (which was still a Portuguese colony at that time) until 1960 when the government decided to build…

Located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Buzios is a peninsula of approximately 8km in length and home to 23 lovely beaches. It was virtually unknown until it was made famous by Brigitte Bardot who holidayed there in the 1960s, after which it became a favourite of the international…