Take Italians, mix them with Spanish and a little bit of Germans and Swiss; pour some easy going American lifestyle and put everything in a country similar in many ways to Northern Europe. That's Argentina! It's a very nice country. Because of its history, Bariloche has a true European taste, the South America I lived on the Andes seems so far million miles away. The indios didn't settle here as well, which means that their colorful clothes, lifestyle and Quechua speaking cannot be heard anymore. Bariloche is a very touristic city, as for skiing over the surrounding mountains as a gateway to Patagonia. Well, I've spent 2 days here in Bariloche, in the lake district, and it's such a relaxing place! 
Nature is gorgeous here. The first day I had a nice 30km mountain bike excursion along the so-called "Circuito Chico" before climbing up to the summit of a small mountain just to watch the sunset from there, while yesterday I had a very interesting day off, just drinking beer all day long from 10 am to 2 am... Well, when company is good is such a pleasure wasting time in a such way, in front of loads of genuine refreshing beers from Patagonia! Yeah!"Now I know, accepting it almost fatalism, that my fate is to travel (...) Perhaps one day, tired of traveling around the world, I come back to live in this land of Argentina, and then, if not as a permanent dwelling, at least as a place of passage to another world view, I will visit it again and plan to live in the lakes area of the Cordillera."
(Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries, 1996)
Try Quilmes beer.... that-s the far best !!!!!
ReplyDeleteMission completed: one litre of Quilmes gone just before gettin' on the 25-hours bus to El Calafate... What a great beer, man!
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