hours.

Once again it was time to think about food and we found the finest example yet of my favourite kind of Argentinean restaurant - the tendor libre, or all you can eat buffet!! These invariably have enormous salad bars, hot buffets, pasta bars and a myriad of deserts!! They also have the most unfeasibly sized meat-fest barbeques - Andy would be in heaven!! All this for less than a fiver is just the best!! With very full bellies we headed back to our hostel and watched some telly before a great nights sleep in a very comfy bed.

The next day we had another look around town, and wandered over to the bus station to book our tickets back to Buenos Aires. This was to be the longest bus journey we’d done at almost twenty hours, so we wanted a very comfy bus!! We opted for the best of the best, an executive suite bus. Although a bit pricey by

Argentinean standards, we felt that our last journey in South America should be done in style, and with the promise of both veggie food and a choice of free champagne or whisky we were sold!! More on the champagne than the whisky it has to be said!!

As we were sitting in another place on the square enjoying more empanadas, humitas and Quilmes we realised that the football would be on the telly in our room. It was only Man United, but as it was a Champions league match and there wasn’t anything else pressing to do we decided to watch it. Afterwards we went out to the internet to do some research on our Africa travels as we still hadn’t been able to locate a Lonely Planet or Rough Guide to Africa.

As luck would have it though, while we were preparing to cook tea we got talking to