Well here we are at the end of the world. We travelled for a day and a half and it really felt like it!. Overnight to Buenos Aires - David just put a blanket over his head like a canary and slept through, while I squirmed and watched the hours pass slowly. Buenos Aires is a very functional city. We had a few hours and a change of airports to negotiate so managed a pilgrimage to the (British built) railway station and a ride on the underground (mosiacs, tiles, lovely)
Here at the very bottom of S America, the sun is shining. Ushuaia was the Argentianian gualag. Convicts built the railway which is now transformed to a bizzare touristique attraction, with station-masters dressed as the Fat Controller and menials as convicts. After a bit of ostentatious poop-pooping, the train rumbles into the local national park, where we walked for a few hours through Hobbit-y forests before missing the return train.
Ushuaia is a bit like a frontier boom-town - tin shacks next to concrete buildings, brothel bars next to souvenier shops.
Off to sea tomorrow!
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