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AUSTRALIA | Wed, 1 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [14]
Örebro
Day 1 = Thu 19 Dec
Last Scandic breakfast
They were so awesome catering for Carl's allergies
Train to Örebro
Faced backwards so listened to Star Guitar
Yet again the backpack showed its value
Saw the ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 1 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [16]
I'm finding I only have time to make quick notes at the end of each day, and I doubt I'll have time to write them up nicely until I get back. So I figured I'd throw the raw notes up here for anyone interested knowing what we're up to in something ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Mon, 30 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [12]
AFTER A NON-EVENTFUL CHRISTMAS IN BA we moved on to Cordoba, the second largest city in Argentina. Although it’s only 450 miles from Buenos Aires we decided fly—we’re no longer bus-riding backpackers if there are other options. And ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 25 Dec 2024 | By besoka | Views [33]
[Still catching up on the journal from our basement apartment in Örebro]
Day 0 = Thu 12 Dec
After we'd found our accommodation, I was sent off to get supplies. There was a Danish supermarket near our place called "Netto", and so I headed ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 23 Dec 2024 | By besoka | Views [39]
OK, I'm doing a bit of catching up now on this blog, so hopefully it'll turn into tight stream-of-conciousness rather than the bloat-by-bloat I churn out when I have too much time. [Update: Nope, sorry it's still kinda waffly.]
First leg - Brisbane ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sat, 21 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [15]
COLONIA CARLOS PELLEGRINI is the hub of the Iberá Wetlands. It consists of Park Headquarters, six hundred residents, a half-dozen lodges and three restaurants—only one of which is open at any given time. We knew we had arrived when we clickety-... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 19 Dec 2024 | By besoka | Views [42]
We haven't been OS since 2008, and haven't been on a plane since 2018 [apart from Emma taking a few domestic work trips because apparently that's still a thing in the modern world of east teleconferencing]. In fact, I worked out that, apart from ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Thu, 19 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [31]
CONNIE FOUND SANDPIPER BIRDING on the Internet and arranged for owner Diego to guide us for five days of birding. After a late start Wednesday—traffic in BA is a bitch—we headed to Ceibas, a wide spot on the road about 165 km from the city.... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Tue, 17 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [30]
JUDGING ONLY BY THE ARTISTS represented, we could have been at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris or the Met in NYC. Surprise— Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is in Buenos Aires! We took advantage of “Oosterdam’s” overnight ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 15 Dec 2024 | By besoka | Views [46]
♫ Ya live sixteen years, and whaddaya get? ♫ Answer: You get to go back to Sweden! So, to get you up to speed since the last post, we've got married, had a couple of kids, and planned a return trip to Sweden. Unfortunately, that trip was ... Read more >
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URUGUAY | Fri, 13 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [52]
WE THOUGHT WE HAD BEEN TO MONTEVIDEO in 2012 when in fact we had taken the ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento, over one hundred miles away. No wonder we didn't recognize anything!
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FALKLAND ISLANDS | Tue, 10 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [43]
FOR GREAT BRITAIN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS are strategic. For Argentina Islas Malvinas are a matter of Pride. For Oosterdam , it’s all about penguins! Colonies of Gentoo and Magellanic Penguins—even some King Penguins—nest on the islands ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Mon, 9 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [51]
WE ARE OFFICIALLY “MOSSBACKS” and have the right to wear a hoop earring in our left ear. “Rounding the Horn” doesn’t have the same significance today that it did in the days of wooden sailing ships—especially today-... Read more >
CHILE | Sun, 8 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [33]
HISTORICALLY—BEFORE THE PANAMA CANAL—the main reason to go to Punta Arenas was to continue on to somewhere else. Magellan and his fleet didn’t tarry long, leaving only his name. Ernest Shackleton, Raold Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott ... Read more >
CHILE | Fri, 6 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [97]
EVEN FOUR DECKS UP, SPRAY FROM the bow streamed down our balcony windows. Oosterdam had been fighting gale-force winds and three-meter waves since we sailed back into the Pacific. Everyone was weaving like winos on a Friday night and the west wind ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Fri, 6 Dec 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [54]
10 years ago, I met the lady who would change my life. Little did I realise that, on that train ride, I would meet someone who would remain so dear to me. Anikka is my bestie, the lady I love most, and my favourite lady in the universe. Speaking of which, ... Read more >
CHILE | Wed, 4 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [39]
IN A PERFECT WORLD WE WOULD stick around this part of Patagonia for a week or so—I would also be twenty years younger. Puerto Varas on Lago Llanquihue is the adventure center for hiking, birding and fishing but to get here you first have to go ... Read more >
CHILE | Sun, 1 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [38]
PUERTO COQUIMBO LOOKED BETTER at dawn with its signature stick-figure concrete cross lighted than when we went ashore later Saturday morning. And in morning’s light we could see some of the wrecks that littered the harbor—another reason to ... Read more >
CHILE | Sun, 1 Dec 2024 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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PERU | Wed, 27 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [43]
CALLAO IS A PORT FOR CARGO SHIPS and Oosterdam stood out like an evening gown at Walmart. We docked around 2 PM Sunday and would be in port until Tuesday evening, just time enough for the well-heeled to take the Holland America excursion to Machu Picchu ... Read more >