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Antarctica iceberg kid fact12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() We arrived at the ship (the National Geographic Explorer) and set sail for Antarctica. In Tierra del Fuego National Park, during our quick boat ride before boarding our ship for our trip to Antarctica The Drake Passage I’ll return someday to see more of Tierra del Fuego – a few hours there definitely whetted my appetite. There’s really not much to say about Ushuaia – there’s an airport, it’s near the national park, and it’s relatively close to Antarctica. We then flew down to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, to do a quick trip through Tierra del Fuego National Park before boarding the ship for our trip to Antarctica. ![]() The ham/cheese and the basil/tomato/cheese empanadas, followed by ice cream nightly at Freddo, meant that at least she wasn’t starving under my watch. My daughter’s not an overly picky eater, but still, food in a new country is always a little bit of a gamble. It was worth every inflating peso though – the empanadas were great. Literally, the next night when we went back the entire menu had been updated to reflect a new price of 15 pesos each. The first night the empanadas at El Sanjuanino were 14 pesos each. This turned out to be a good lesson in Argentine inflation. We ate at El Sanjuanino twice in two nights, close to our hotel (the Sofitel Buenos Aires Recoleta). We started in Buenos Aires for three days, walking a lot, visiting El Ateneo bookstore (my daughter loved the large children’s section and picked out some Spanish versions of books she had back home), the Recoleta cemetery to see Eva Peron’s tomb (she liked the cats that wandered around more than the tombs), the area around the cemetery, and La Boca neighborhood, home of the tango. Walking around the La Boca Neighborhood of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina ![]()
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