Glaciers

Having arrived back from Torres the previous day at 2am, we were stright into action the next day at 7, to make our 8.30 leave for the Todos Glaciers tour round Laco Argentinea. This was effectively us and a bunch of old people sat on a sea cat all day, trying to avoid icebergs and look at Glaciers. Both of which we achieved successfully, but as you can imagine post trekking, we all managed to thrash out some Zzz´s on the trip too...

Particularly interesting on the trip is the milky colour of the water (GCSE geography 4 marks available), and the temparature- around 2 degrees by the Glacier faces. Apparently giving one around 2 minutes before dieing if you fall in. Don´t worry, no one has. It was my first question to our guide.

After reaching port again at we drove to the most famous of the Glaciers in the region, Perito Merino. This is a step above the other Glaciers as large chunks fall off regularly and you can see it from land too. Really quite spectacular, although Jamie and I managed to be turning away as the largest chunk fell off when we were there. Sods law. If you´re ever there they also do very tasty coffee and chocolate. Nyum nyum.

The following day we treated ourselves to a lie in and a long lomu (steak) luncheon before heading to the airport to fly back to BA. As expected our flight was 5 hours late and so Jamie and I took the mature approach of drinking through the problem, with the help of his highly original "Astrological Phenomena" top trumps. Those around us enjoyed several rye grins as we read out exactly why the "milky way" beats "the meteor" and so on. I think they were grinning anyway.

We also met a dutch couple in the airport who we chatted to for hours outside, who insisted on taking us out in Buenos Aires for lunch the following day to meet their 18 year old daughter and friends. All highly amusing and random. Daughters mates didnt show mind.

El Calafate, Argentina