Puzzling!
Spent the day fixing bike problems and shopping for food for the next cycling section. The weather was sunny, warm and still which, after recent experience, means the days we cycle are wet, windy and cold. Had our first oven baked empanadas in a month (deep fried versions are not quite as delicious) and worked out an itinerary for the next week. We proposed to cycle north to Bariloche along the route we would have taken before John’s accident. The scar has healed really well but ‘looks small and pathetic’, (Johns words) and not big enough to have caused so much disruption. On the bright side, we had heard yet more stories that the weather along the C. Austral had been abnormally wet every day thanks to El Nino. Had a delicious meal with conjuring tricks and a little twisty metal trick that Helen couldn’t work out! That was Johns’ concise version of the evening! A magician and his wife(?) had decided to open a restaurant with food as the side show….which thankfully was very good (Trattoria Don Chiquino). We ended up spending 3 hours there with only half that time spent trying to work out the puzzles that the magicians assistant (waitress/wife) would place and demonstrate at the table with a dead pan, quite scary face. I spent the latter half of the evening removing bottle tops from my right ear as children suddenly appeared next to me to play the ‘Throw bottle tops at the 1950’s wooden bar game’ which I had unwittingly sat next to. It was brilliant! Enjoyed a quieter night at the campsite with only the odd whiff of wood smoke.
Quieter campsite - breakfast
Trattoria Don Chiquino - dinner
We didn't even see the magicians wife take the camera!
