snowy mountains but it wasn’t really clear enough to see the ones in the far distant. After our walk we checked out the café and had a delightful hot chocolate and brandy which went down very well!

After this we decided to take the chair lift back down and on the way up we had seen loads of school kids playing in the snow, and on the way down there were far more of them. It was really amusing as they were all colour co-ordinated which made for some very funny viewing from the chairlift as they were throwing themselves around in the snow! We had various chairlifts go past us with them screaming and waving like mad. They were certainly on mass at the bottom and we were glad to have taken the chairlifts when we did, there must have been at least 150 of them waiting at the entrance!!

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this point we were fairly hungry so we checked out the pizza restaurant. It was a typical Argentine pizza in the way that the cheese doesn’t melt properly and they never give you pepper! Still we’ve certainly had worse pizzas than this one and the bottle of Quilmes (Argentina’s most popular beer) helped us forget about the lack of pepper and unmelted cheese! It would be an amazing place to visit in the winter and it would also be great to say that you have been snowboarding in July!!! Hopefully one day this may come true!

The next morning we realised that it was our final day in Bariloche. Wow how the time had flown!! We decided to head into Bariloche one more time and I spoke to Les which is always a good thing to do! Then we decided to try and check out flights from South America to South Africa. Sometimes I despair at the internet and Google. Some of the results it came up with were