Thursday 23 February 2012  -  Buenos Aires

A leisurely breakfast at 08:00 and then registration with Hurtigruten our Antarctic tour organisers who were tucked away in the basement of the hotel.  We booked in for an afternoon bus tour around Buenos Aires, a Ushuaia national parks tour and a Falklands island tour. The rest of the morning was easy going with me continuing to catch up on writing cards and the travel blog whilst Malcolm sat in the garden reading a book.  At 15:00 our city tour departed the hotel returning three hours later.  This was our first opportunity to meet some of the fellow travelers with whom we would share the next 20 days onboard the good ship, MV Fram.  On our return to the hotel we had a quick shower and returned to our favourite steak house for dinner.  Tonight we completed repacking the bags which were then left outside the hotel room for collection later that night and transporting to the ship.  There were also many items which we did not need to take along on the ship and these were placed in a separate bag which was left at the hotel in the locker room until our return three weeks later.