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It was always going to be a long one. London → Madrid → Buenos Aires → Montevideo in one hit was quite ambitious. But sitting down with a beer at 3pm in San Telmo, after a leasury walk through the Sunday market in Plaza Dorrego with only a short ferry to Montevideo to go, we thought we were all over it. It's then I made the fatal mistake of commenting on how easy things were going. Sure I knocked on wood as soon as I said it, but no good. A few minor mishaps stringed together resulted in us arriving at the ferry port, sweating profusely, to watch our ferry pull out of the dock without us. Due to our tight schedule, this meant we might not get to go Uruguay at all.

But not all was lost. We were able to catch a later ferry, to a different city, and bus it from there, arriving only 4hrs late. Thus, after dropping our bags in to the hostel, the only bars open for a drink were down by the port, with the ladies of the night. All in all, quite a fair days' travel.

Relaxing in San Telmo

As stated in my earlier twitter post, it was just fantastic to be back in Buenos Aires (just for the afternoon). Absolutely beautiful late summers Sunday afternoon, wandering through the antiques market in my favourite barrio, San Telmo. It was like I had never left. Tango dancers in the street, people relaxing outside the cafes, music in the air, scented with the smell of the Parrillas (those famous Argentinean steak houses). Sunday afternoon is by far the best time, as the streets are closed to traffic for all the market stalls, lowering the decibel level by about 1000%. For the rest of the week clapped out buses with no mufflers fly down the cobble stone streets, creating quite a racket.

While this whole working while travelling is a bit hard.  I continually feel that I'm not giving places their true justice, by spending A LOT of time on my laptop in hostel rooms and not exploring as much as I'd like to.  In saying that, it is still a positive experience.  Like this morning's comute to work (hotel with wifi) across Warsaw on public buses is definately something different than an hour on the sardine-fest that is the Victoria Line!!

Going to Santa's house for Christmas!!  Figured we're gunna struggle for a present this year from Santa, so we thought we'd rock to to his place in Lapland, knock on the door with a bottle of red and try out luck.

We've booked the Christmas break in Levi, Finland.  15 mile north of the Arctic circle.  Snowboarding the the dark, northern lights, reindeer.  Going to be nuts, all are welcome obviously!  Going for our whitest Christmas ever!!

Having a think about next snowboarding trip, here are two potential prospects;

http://www.gulmarg.org/
http://www.nisekoski.com.au/

Here we go again.............. a new site! This is the third major jozzhart.com undertaking. The original back in the day for the 02 World Tour. Second created 'round 05 for the South America trip. Now this one, sticking with the three year cycle, for the massive Europe summer ahead. LET'S GO!

Ya, the hard drive is screwed, so I have lost the se-asia photos and pretty much all photos for my summer in Aus,.... :( Including the original of this one which I wanted to get blown up.........

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Have been meaning to get the photos from S.E. Asia up, but my hard drive crashed, so I might have lost them! (and a couple of weeks work, music, email, etc........) Sooooooo, give me a week to order some tools to see if I can fix it, otherwise no Asia photos! :(

hello everybody

Just a quick one, have made it to Don Det in the 4000 islands, on the Mekong, between southern Laos and Cambodia. Quite and amazing place. Just a bunch of thatch huts and electricity 3 hrs and day, not much else. Very quite, very remote, very cheap, very hot, very backwards. Good food and good swimming. And definitely somewhere I'll always remember.

Hey All, next time someone asks you to fix their hiccups, use this method.

We all headed down to the good old Inkerman to catch up with Abo, who had just got off the plane from London.

photos (broken, will fix)