This is sunrise at the end of the world.  It was so beautiful when I went out on the balcony this morning.  The pinks in the sky and the rosy light over the town of Ushuaia was amazing.  Ushuaia is the most southerly town in the world hence its description of being ‘fin del  mondo’ or the end of the world. 

We opted for room service breakfast and enjoyed cereal, fresh fruit, a muffin for Craig and a croissant for for me.  I managed to get the previous days blog post written as I had a few to publish and was hoping that I’d be able to get good wifi today.  There was wifi at Stanley in the Falklands but you had to pay and it was something like $10 for 30 minutes and apparently not very fast so I gave it a miss. 

Anyway we got organized and walked off the ship into a biting wind and a temp of about 6 degrees.  The pier was a hive of activity with cranes and forklifts whizzing everywhere unloading a ship with packed frozen fish.  There was also a small ship from the Noble Caledonian line –haven’t heard of them before,  a National Geographic ship as well as a couple of other small ships.  

I had a booking for a tour on a double decker bus so we checked out where to  board it then had a bit of a wander round the town.  The bus was an old British double decker which I have to say our driver handled incredibly well – a pretty clunky gearbox and no power steering.  Our tour lasted about an hour and half and showed us a fair bit of the town.  While the main central area was ok, there were some areas on the outskirts where the poverty was obvious.  But  the scenery was incredible with towering mountains, many of the peaks snow covered with mist swirling around them.  Once again we had beautiful weather – very cold but no rain and often quite sunny.  Once the tour was over we went in search of coffee and wifi.  There was a Hard Rock Café and I thought that being a major business they’d have decent wifi.  And I was right – we got brilliant fast wifi and all my pictures uploaded super quickly and I got caught right up to date with four posts. 

We left there and meandered back to the ship checking out a couple of souvenir shops along the way.   I toyed briefly with the idea of buying a little marble penguin then said to Craig – “I’ll cart it all the way home then it will just be something else to pick up and dust!”  So no penguin but that’s where the blog is so good – all the memories are captured there.

Once back on board we headed up to Horizon and had a bowl of soup which warmed us up beautifully then we headed back to the cabin for a wee rest and read.  Around 4 we headed up to Crooners and Chris made Craig one of his special hot toddies and we checked out the $10 sale – definitely nothing exciting there.  We sat and chatted to a couple from Bisbee in Arizona and then came back to the cabin to get changed for dinner. 

We were at a table for six tonight – which is a great size as you can hear everyone easily.  We shared with a couple from the south of England and a farmer and his wife from Ohio and once again enjoyed their company.  During dinner we passed a glacier so I nipped across to get a picture  (not very great I’m afraid).  Tonight I had seafood ceviche, then orange roughie fish and finished with a delicious lemon soufflé to finish.  We’d a nightcap in Crooners then Craig headed up to bed.  I popped in to the casino but it was a donation night so I didn’t stay long – once my allowance for the day was gone I headed up to bed.