Change of scenery and T-Shirt

We did a couple of wine tasting tours in Mendoza and after Bec refused to let me buy into a vinyard we made our way, only business class, to Bariloche in the Argentinian Lake District. Bariloche is the base for the ski resort of Catedral during the southern hemisphere winter and although Bariloche is a year round resort it still feels strange being in a ski resort out of season. The bottom pic shows the ski runs and lifts of Catedral. It made me feel very envious of Nige, Matt and Sean who have just been skiing and Um who is snowbaording this week.

As you can imagine here in the Lake District the scenery is wonderful, the air fresh and thoughts of home are never far away. Here in Patagonia during the 19th Century immigrants came from all over Europe so there are Welsh (lots of gnomes everywhere), Italian, German and Swiss influences, especially the food and architecture. As Bec described it to me - it`s all tea rooms, chocolate shops and Heidi houses.

At the River Plate match I went to a couple of weeks ago I saw a very fitting T-shirt for me as I was waiting to leave the ground (home fans rather than away fans are kept behind here). It`s red and white and has the name of a engineering company on the back. So here am I, number 9 FateO (Fatty 0) !

I´ve taken some stick about my Bolivian T-shirt. After Ste`s accusations of me constantly wearing it I defended myself and said it was just a coincidence that there were so many pics as I´d only wore it 3 times. My dad replied "What? January, February and March!"