So the marathon bus journey is now behind me! We left sunny but cold Bariloche at 3pm and arrived in cloudy but mild Buenos Aires the next day at 12pm - a journey of 21 hours! Apart from the idiot at Bariloche bus station who went mental at me because I didn´t tip him for moving my bag 2ft (he for me typifies Argentinians who I´ve found to be aggressive and rude on the whole), and apart from the fact the airline style dinner wasn´t served until 11pm (too late!...

Hello from Argentina, and happy Columbus Day! The 12th of October is a designated bank holiday in Argentina in honour of the explorer responsible for much of the colonization of the Americas, but this isn´t exactly good news for me. Like Sunday yesterday, it pretty much means that most of Argentina is closed. Bariloche is a pretty touristic town so there are some shops open, but the busses are running a very reduced schedule so we are pretty much stuck in town t...