Montevideo Airport - Buenos Aires is closed due to "meteorological" conditions

The first part of this post was deleted in an effort to make sure the post wasn't deleted. God I hate it when things like that happen. Anyhow as you can see we are in Montevideo airport and not Buenos Aires and we hoped we would be. Due to leave from Colonia and cross the small distance over to Buenos Aires we realised something had gone awry when we were told the port was closed and the thick smoke that had been covering Colonia the day before began to make sense. If you haven't already heard it is the fault of the farmers as many things are :p. They set fire to some fields because they're pissed off about something and that means I can't go to Buenos Aires. Unlike most Irish people I won't bitch and moan and say what a horrible selfish bunch they are because *I* can't do something. I always found that ironic and infuriating in the "selfless" outpouring of rage that we(Irish people that is) often exhibit. Instead I will say that I am very happy to be going to Trelew, one of those Welsh towns in Patagonia hopefully in time to catch the end of the penguin season and hopefully in time to miss the "Orca slaughtering baby seals" season for that is where we are headed now. Trelew is in a region dotted with villages and towns where nonconformists of Welsh origin fled to in the face of persecution. Now you can get nice tea and cakes there and they have an Eistedfodd every year. Hooray for persecution! We hope also to go the Peninsula Valdes and look at some whales, who didn't feel the urge to slaughter some fluffy seal pups, and a petrified forest some distance down the road. We've heard there's diving in old wrecks around here but I'm sure if I want to get into such cold water especially having become used to temperatures that never drop below 10 degrees. We shall see. From there off to Ushuaia I think and to the most southerly city in the world. I think I'll need a new jumper.