What snack would you eat right now?
I guess it’s empanadas
We‘ve had a few of those.
Travelling the Chilean coast
With Argentina next.
Our last stop Punta Arenas,
Through Magellan Strait
Ushuaia is up next.
There’s empanadas everywhere
A Patagonian treat
It’s mostly made of pastry
A little pastie thing
But stuffed with meat or vegetable
And usually with cheese.
The very joy of travelling
Is trying different things
We‘ve had quite a few of these
But I’m up for something else.
What are your future travel plans?
Planned and booked our next big journey
Slightly off the beaten track.
Flying first to Buenos Aries
Santiago coming back.
Meanwhile places we’ve not been to
On the good ship Oosterdam
Can’t say I am not excited
Looking forward? Yes I am.
Round the coast from Argentina
Dropping in on Uruguay
Visiting the Falkland Islands
And its Penguin colony.
Dropping down to the Antarctic
Sights we won’t have seen before
Wildlife witnessed on the ice floes
Penguins, seals and many more.
Sailing back towards Cape Horn
Up through the Magellan Straits.
Hoping not too rough a passage
but one to boast of to our mates.
Up the coast to Santiago
Where we round our journey off.
Flying back from there to Heathrow
Three weeks cruising quite enough.
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