Thursday 21^st February – Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

Woke up just before 8am – just in time to watch Voyager “park”.

Got collected from the hotel at 10am and driven round the one-way system to be deposited 100 yds. from where he picked us up! There was shuttle bus to take us along the pier to the ship (we has actually walked this the day before, but there were now armed guards around!) BUT – not so simple”

As we were embarking, we had to wait for the Port Authorities to pick us up and take us a couple of miles down the road to the commercial pier where our luggage was scanned (took all of two minutes) and then we were driven back to the ship.

We arrived in the middle of a crew emergency drill but Nino still managed to shout “I’ll put your wine in to chill for tonight!”

A lot of crew and passengers seemed genuinely pleased to see us again and we were regaled with tales of storms, not being able to land in Port Stanley and “we haven’t seen the sun for 6 days” etc.

Had a little issue with transferring photos onto the computer but George in the camera shop has lent us a lead so hopefully all will be well.

Friday 22^nd February – Day at Sea.

Warm and sunny today. Nesta didn’t sleep too well last night as she had to get used to the ship’s random movements and noises again.

Enjoyed a Mongolian Stir Fry on the Lido deck for lunch and then attended the Captain’s farewell party for the passengers who get off in Buenos Aires. We managed quite a few free fizzy wines and together with our chilled bottle of Malbec slept well… (or at least, Nesta did until 3am when it got a bit windy and rocky). She was awake until 6-30am but then managed to sleep until 11-15am!

 

Now the sun is back - we have a Mongolian stir-fry(?) on board. The rest of the passengers are much older than us!!

Saturday 23^rd February – Day at Sea.

Another day spent at sea as we head to Buenos Aires and the end of our fifth cruise! We’re now more than half way through our travels and time seems to be going faster.

Having said that, though, the Captain seems to have mislaid Buenos Aires as we didn’t turn into the River Plate until evening and for most of the day we were heading straight for Montevideo!

Attended the farewell “Mr Bridge” do and then had an early night in preparation for our next overland trip starting tomorrow to the Iguazu Falls!