Bariloche is the best known town in the Argentine Lake District and was popular with Nazis who fled Germany after WW11. It is now like a displaced alpine town full of tourists and chocolate shops. The overnight stay is memorable for a cabaret in the hotel restaurant where we are spared having to sing into the mike along with the singer as we are non native speakers. There are times when it's best not to appear to speak Spanish. Foreign bathrooms and plumbing a...

Our direct flight of an hour and 45mins from Calafate to Bariloche was cancelled shortly before our trip so instead, after a 2 hour drive back to Calafate from El Chaltén we fly 3 hours north to Buenos Aires and then over 2 hours south to Bariloche, a total of 10 and a half hours of travel to end up 1300km north of where we had started. To pick up our hire car forms are filled in duplicate by hand and the sole employee spends 10 minutes going over the car show...