Bienvenidos a Patagonia

Hola otra vez amigos!

Primero los ultimo fotos de Posadas. Me gusta mucho los arbols de Posadas!

El autobus desde Posadas hasta Buenos Aires fueron bueno y fui a Aeroparque Jorge Newbery en un Remisse taxi. No hay problema. Pero, que lastima, yo perdí mi lentes de sol al aeroparque! Probablemente por que estuve cansado!

Entonces, llegue a El Calafate y es diferente que Misiones. No hay arbols pero hay lagos grande y algunas montanas. Finalmente, tienes glaciares. Mañana voy a ir a Perito moreno glaciar para "Big Ice".

Algunas fotos de El Calafate.

Camine al lago Argentina ayer. El Calafate de distancia.

Lago Argentina. Muy Azul!

Caballos comiendos.

Los pajaros se gusta mucho el lago y habitat. No ven aquí pero hay mucho.

Me hacia mucho risa a este! No necesito diccionario!

Chau todo el mundo!


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Ok, I will translate what I thought I was saying and add some extra bits (in brackets)

Hello again friends!

First some final photos of Posadas. I love the trees of Posadas.

The bus from Posadas to Buenos Aires was good and I took a remisse (mini-cab) to the airport without a problem. What a shame! I lost my sunglasses at the airport. Probably  because I was tired. (I went to the toilet pretty much immediately on arrival to wash my face and freshen up. I suspect I had the glasses on my head after using them in the taxi and after taking them off to wash my face probably didn't pick them up again. Not great as they were prescription Oakleys. Oh well, never mind)

So, I arrived in El Calafate and it is very different to Misiones. No trees, (pretty barren actually) but  there are lakes and mountains. Tomorrow I go to the Perito Moreno Glacier to do what is called Big Ice. (It's a full day excursion!)

Some photos of El Calafate...

1 El Calafate from a distance.
2.Lake Argentina (the biggest wholly Argentinian Lake) Very Blue.
3. Horses Eating.
4. THe lake is great habitat for birds - you can't see them here but there are loads.
5. (A portaloo!). Don't abuse, I have feelings! I wonder if they need a personal pronoun in there. No me abusen? I laughed a lot at this and don't need a dictionary.

Bye everyone...

Some extra bits.

I feel my spanish is getting a bit better. Thanks to...

• Norma - my spanish teacher in Posadas. In one lesson was even a joint spanish, English (spanglish!) lesson with one of her other pupils - very impressive!
• Elena - my host here in El Calafate. although she speaks quite good English (enough to deal with tourists) she is being very patient and helping me practice spanish.
• Being forced to do lots of organising and stuff with no-one speaking much English.
• I'm finding the accent a little easier here - maybe as the people here are used to speaking with more tourists.

So I'm confident I have more than plenty spanish to get by as a tourist.

One final amusing thing.

Yesterday as I was preparing to go out I noticed the beday in the bathroom had a drip. I thought I would save some water by tightening the taps, only I must've turned it the wrong way and WOOOOSH there was water spraying up. Could I turn it off? That'll be no and I was getting worried as it was in the afternoon when no-one else was around to help. Thankfully I did manage to stem the flow with "brute force and ignorance". There is still a tiny dribble but I think I'll just leave it now.

Drop by in a couple of days to see how "Big Ice" went.