Tales from the Lake District (The Patagonian one)
Trip Start
Jan 10, 2005
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Trip End
May 21, 2005
Bariloche,
Argentina
Saturday, February 5, 2005
First up - big birthday shouts to Mat, Vibe, Kay, Vicky and Ryan. Some of you are hitting the big 30. Try not to think about it too much and get yourselves down the pub - you´ll feel just like you were 23 in no time.
Anyway - food update:
Currently meals are 12% cheese, 8% bread, 80% cow.
Omlettes: surprisingly only had 8 or 9 between us(don´t worry - shall be in the 100s by the time we´re in Bolivia)
Courgettes: nearly but turned out to be a cucumber variant
01.The Centre of Bariloche
.Aubergines: identified in many supermarkets - shelves always full - aubergines always shrivelled - if any attempt to cook with them is made strange looks are received.
Cow: they are not lying to you - steaks here are the size of a football. If you ask for medium it´s practically mooing (jealous Jimbo?)
Dan has learnt some Spanish! He can now ask for draught beer (cerveza tirada) which would be very useful if more than 3 places in the country had it! He also got very excited when he saw Warsteiner on tap here - unfortunately this is Warsteiner brewed in Argentina not Germany and in taste closely resembles Old Mans Scrott - yum.
Anyway apart from eating steak and hunting for premium imported draught lager we have also been:
Kayaking on the lakes (Dan did 90% of the paddling - I just screamed lots when the wind tried to beach us on rocks)
Playing with Argentine traffic on our bikes (buses here drive you off the road)
Getting insanely lost on hikes, having to walk 13 k instead of 8 in the mid-afternoon sun ("this looks like a good short cut" - Dan)
Getting sunburnt (had to put Dan in a cold bath for an hour yesterday).
Will sign off now but will leave you with a selection of photos from the recent days.
x x D + S
