It's been a quiet couple of days in Pucón, the good weather left us again and was replaced with low clouds and occasional rain. It's not so bad though because we can wake up late and have a leisurely breakfast in front of the roaring log fire. We had a bunch of stuff we needed to get sorted out too and doing it in the luxury of the empty hostel was great.

We did venture out occasionally though; a trip to the laundry, booking flights at the travel agency (you need a Chilean credit card to book flights at cheaper rate online), buying bus tickets, buying some new weather proof tramping gear for Maria and of course going to eat and drink.

We had to laugh when we came back from our first trip round town, because when Fiona, the hostel dog, came to meet us at the gate, she had had eyebrows drawn on her head.

We made a point of going back to Cassis, the restaurant that served huge pieces of cake, to have a lunch. Their Sunday menu del diá seemed even better than the midweek one. Everyone chose the salmon ceviche to start with. While the girls went for the chupe de mariscos, a bowl of thick chowder jam packed full of seafood, the boys went for lomo a la pobre, big pieces of thick steak covered in onions and fried eggs, for the main course. If that wasn't enough to fill you up, dessert was also included, which meant an enormous slice of cake and a coffee. David's cake was so big and rich that he had to ask for half of it to be put in a bag to take home.

By the end of the two days, apart from eating well, we have worked out a pretty good plan for the route through Patagonia. Throughout the whole of our trip so far we have barely considered where we will be the next week, but with only really a month left to cram in probably the best part that Chile/Argentina has to offer, we've had to plan carefully. We have a bit of flexibility built in, but with flights and some accommodation booked, it's getting more rigid all the time.