Garage Storage and workshop 2 Oct 2020 The need for storage 4 Oct 2020
Buenos Aires 31st October – 1st November.
We were collected at 4.21am (which is precisely the time we were given) for our transfer to the Airport. Not surprisingly there was little traffic and we had a pleasant enough wait for our flight after the queue at checkin. It turns out we are travelling all the way with some junior football team that […]
Galápagos Islands Day 5: 30th October
We were up at 6am for a ride to this nearby mangrove area in the zodiacs. It’s a nursery area for sharks including hammerhead sharks. It was a glorious still morning and a real highlight. We got great pictures of 2 herons up in a tree. This is obviously just one of them For the […]
Galápagos Islands Day 4: 29th October
Well we survived the night better than others. Quite a few were sick and one of the English women, (a young doctor) got thrown across her bathroom and has a badly bruised hip and lower back. Pam and Nigel, the other Kiwi couple had a water pipe burst above them so the upper bunk got […]
Galápagos Islands Day 3: 28th October
We had a pretty good night. Not too rough and we slept quite well after the boat dropped anchor at about 2.30am. After breakfast we took the zodiacs to the nearby beach and had a short walk looking at the various sea birds. Today we got up close with red footed boobies. So beautiful. They […]
Galápagos Islands Day 2: 27th October
The voyage was a bit rough during the early morning but nothing too bad. Mike’s camera fell off the shelf, which didn’t do the zoom any good. It seems to be sticking today. It was a bit noisy when the anchor came up and the engines began but you get used to it. It was […]
Galápagos Islands Day 1: 26th October
We were collected at 6am for our flight to San Cristobal via another coastal city (name unknown). There was almost no traffic on the road or at the airport so had an hour to wait. We’d been given a packed breakfast to eat on the way: ham and cheese sandwich (do they eat anything else […]
Quito: 25th October
We had a nice breakfast at La Cartuja Hotel: cereal, fresh fruit scrambled eggs, fresh fruit juice (orange or plum) and toast. We decided to walk into town having discovered that the Hilton was just down the road and they are normally located near something of note. Our hotel is beautifully clean and very secure […]
To Galápagos Islands: Thursday 24th – Friday 25th October
We got up early so that we could have our option 2 breakfast before our transfer arrived. The breakfasts are in the cafe/bakery next door, which is a very typical cafe in the city. People come in and get the pastries either to eat there or take away. We’d been liaising with Flightcentre to get […]
Buenos Aires and Colonia Day 6: 23rd October
We struggled to get going this morning despite both settling alarms as today we are off to Colonia. Colonia is a small city in Uruguay across the river from Buenos Aires. The River Plate is the worlds widest river at this point being about 100km across. You are crossing to a new country so have […]
Buenos Aires Day 5: 22nd October
I had a frustrating start to the day being unable to load photos for the blog and Mike was also having internet problems. We find that we lose connection to data even off wifi and when we have loads of bars on our phone. How quickly you come to expect uninterrupted, fast internet everywhere in […]
Buenos Aires Day 4: 21 October
We had booked to go to ‘The Argentinian Experience’ tonight but they were full with availability tomorrow. All good except my phone was not playing the game with the internet. No issues with my iPad but for some reason my phone is very sensitive. Anyway that led to a frustrating 40 minutes while we rebooked […]