Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Bariloche - Or is it Barichocolate?

So here we are in small Switserland. Day 2 in Bariloche. I like it here. It is quite big and if it wasn´t for the language I would swear I was in Switserland. Never seen (nor ate for that matter) so much chocolate in my life. The shop-windows display neverending rows of the black (or white) delicacy. Whatever you can put into chocolate it´s in it. However you can garnish or decorate it, believe me, it´s done. (What you see is just a fragment of what they are doing to us with their provocative mega exhibitions of chocolate. Just wanted to let you know how much we suffer....). Everything else looks like Switserland too, lakes, big wooden lodges in the hills.
Anyway, we tried to walk and do some sportive things over here but until now we were out of luck. The 1 of May, everything was closed. (Only in Holland everybody works on that day). The next day and today it rained cats and dogs, so there are hardly any tours and busses seem so attractive when you´re walking.. Today we´ve been busy almost the whole day trying to reserve the bus to go south. But after a few tour-operaters they could finally tell us that the road (Route 40) is closed for the winter. So we are flying again. Friday, Argentina´s aircraft will fly us to El Calefate. In the vicinity of this town we can visit the biggest glacier of the world (Perito Moreno) and beautiful National Parks. So the records are on again. Here we will show ourselves from our best sporty sides. And we are getting near the end of the world pretty soon. That will be nice....

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