Which is the day after tomorrow... I have a flight back up to Rio Gallegos. It´s more expensive than the bus but it takes 1 hour instead of at least 12. Not that I really mind the buses but this far south they´re the worst buses and I´ve done the 4 hour border crossing bit on the way down. And as the flight out of here is supposed to be spectacular through the mountains and over the Beagle Channel I´ve decided the extra 260Ar$ (about 60 euros) is worth it. Ha, 60 euros, that sounds better already! :-) This morning went to the Museo del Fin del Mundo, learnt a lot about shipwrecks and saw a condor close up and was very glad it was dead and not diving down at me from above. (Which did happen to Chatwin at one point.) With the museum ticket you could also enter the Governer´s House which had more about the sinking of, amongst other ships, the Monte Cervantes. Then it was time for my Spanish lesson. Mixture of crash course in the past, present and future tenses and some ´chat´ which is quite difficult when you can´t find the words you want anywhere in your head. After that wandered along to the naval museum as I´d heard there was a bus left for the prison (now a museum) from there at 17.30 but this wasn´t so today so wandered about some more and found the cinema. (See the pic under the one of the horse.) Going there tonight with a very short Irishman and his very tall Swiss girlfriend (those who know them, think Sagi and Karin and you get the rough picture) and possibly the New Hampshire twins and their 2 pals (who´ll no doubt have all the guys in the hostel coming too if they come along). The last pic is taken through the window of a place where they were roasting whole crucified lambs around a woodfire, fairly typical Argentinian way of cooking some of the huge amounts of meat consumed here. I´m in the place with the fast picture loading computer now and am putting up yesterday´s photos. Off to check mail now.
Later: have just worked out how to upload 5 pics at once instead of having to do every one separately, that saves a lot of hassle. Well, the idea was to learn new things by doing this blog.
