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Happy Christmas one and all!
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Here´s wishing you all a very happy Christmas and a tremendous New Year in 2007!
We have arrived back in Buenos Aires after our whirlwind tour of Patagonian Chile and Argentina. It´s hot and humid here and a bit of a shock after the ice-capped mountains and icy winds but it´s nice to get the shorts out for a change. This morning we had a massive storm contained in about an hour of thunderous rain, which has cooled down the city nicely thank you very much. It´s beginning to heat up again slowly though. Excellent. I doubt that the family will be reading this before Christmas, they´re already en route, so I can tell you that we´ll be standing at the arrivals with a sign saying "Conlisk" on it when they arrive, which they´re not expecting. Also, they think they are going to have dinner in the hotel. We´ve seen the hotel, and were afraid we´d be chucked out for being scruffy, it´s that kind of place. So instead of a stuffy dinner with the other guests we have instead organised a tango dinner, complete with tango lessons instead. As a "nice surprise". I´m sure my family will agree too (eventually). We are not the dancing types so perhaps a nice bottle of Argentinian wine ("from the Mendoza region of course" in a snooty voice) will be required to get things moving. No such measures required for young Svanberg of course (as we all know, it takes very little to get her dancing - it´s stopping her doing that bloody monkey dance that´ll be the problem! I blame Sarah Jamieson for that one.). As for the rest of their stay who knows, I´ll keep you informed at a later date. As for photo uploads, I´ve just spent an hour trying to get one into a small enough file size to upload, and no joy unfortunately. I´ll just have to spend a month doing it when the trip is over next year... Yous can all just use your imagination to picture in your mind´s eye this Irish family trying drunkenly to tango whilst tucking into succulent juicy steaks with blood and red wine running down our chins... Happy Christmas!
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Dec 30, 2006 11:32 EST by dirkje
Hola Chicos,
That all sounds very nice! While you were trying to get blown away in the BsAs storm, we did our very best to get lost in the mountains near Bariloche and almost managed to do so. Rain was pouring so hard that the trail eventually changed into a river. Luckily met some people who worked further up in the refugio. They took us there, through snow and rain. In the refugio it wa... show all
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