Tag: Patagonia & Falkland 2020
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The End – 02.03.2020 [it]
[en] Quiet flight and solitary transit in Madrid (the other travelling companions have a different itinerary as they go to Milan while I go to Geneva). In the airport, apart from some problems to pass the automatic entry control in the Schengen zone, everything is quiet even if I can see some masks and I…
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Santiago – 01.03.2020 [it]
[en] While waiting for the return flights, we have one morning to visit Santiago, the group is breaking up . For a good while, I walk around the centre with Fabio before returning to the hotel and taking a last walk in the park on the nearby hill. Then we leave as a group for…
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Falkland – Cile – 29.02.2020 [it]
We get back: the first step is to take the plane at Mount Pleasant, almost 2 hours in the queue to carry out the “formalities” including the payment of the “tourist” tax at the exit. The few flights – one or two commercial flights and a military one – can justify the slowness? After the…
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Stanley – 28.02.2020 [it]
[en] In the morning, last visit of the fauna: albatrosses, cormorants and some rockhopper penguins. To continue with the flight back to Stanley including a stopover at Pebble Island where we had gone earlier in the week. Probably the nicer flight thanks to the weather and the itinerary. In Stanley the weather was better than…
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Pebble Island – 25.02.2020 [it]
[en] A long trip with a “visit” to the remains of the war with Argentina at the beginning and end of the day, one might think that the Argentine remains were left as a warning…. But you will encounter numerous animals such as groups of dolphins just a few meters from the shore. Or a…