Exploring Los Antiguos

After a good nights rest we wake earlyish to see the sunrise over the lake. This place is so tranquil i could stay a few more days. After the sunrise we go up for breakfast and then back to the room to pack. We have decided to leave after breakfast and buy our tickets for the bus to Perito Moreno drop our bags and explore the town here. We arrive at the bus station at 930 to find the ticket office has a sign saying it doesn't open till 10. There are a couple of girls here from Israel so we sit talking and at 10 oclock still no sign of life in the ticket office. Today is Good Friday and I wonder wether they will open at all so I ask the cleaner and she advises me that they will open at 11. Pretty much on time a lady comes and opens the office and with tickets booked and bags stowed we walk down town. The town is so small we will have no problem exploring it all before 2, when the bus will leave. Its a quaint little place with lots of artisan pieces and a big memorial to the Falklands war. Over 600 men died from this small town alone and once again I think of how many families have been affected. We sit and take a coffee before heading up to a Yamana indigenous carving with a beautiful view of the mountains surrounding this small city. The exploring finished it's back to the terminal for our short one and a half hour journey to Perito Merino. When we arrive in Perito Moreno I get the bus tickets out to check the time we will be leaving in the morning to see they have today's date on? The lady at the station told ne there was no service today, but after a confused spanish conversation I realise they're was no bus from los antiguous and our bus has a ready left from here. This has been an expensive mistake as we now have to buy another 2 tickets for tomorrow at a cost of 50 quid each and the hotel is another 50. The lack of not understanding Spanish has cost me dearly and I'm physically sick. Mark as usual is don't worry there's nothing we can do. The ticket office isn't open till 5 so we walk down to drop our bags at the hotel. Mark tells me to chill and get a shower ( guess I must smell) while he goes to get some more cash as we've brought enough to pay for the hotel and a bite to eat but not enough to pay for another set of bus tickets. The day gets worse when mark returns and tells me that one of the banks is out of money and our card doesn't work in the other. With just enough cash to pay for the bus I ask at reception if I can pay by card and he advises they accept MasterCard, but as we've found out before our card doesn't necessarily work even in this case so I ask if I can pay now . The guy uses our card but says it won't work because the connection is poor and we should try again tomorrow. ?? What is the internet faster in the morning, also we have a bus to catch and I definitely don't want to miss this one. Mark tells me to calm down and we ask the guy if there's anywhere we can eat that we can pay by card. We arrive at the restaurant/hotel to find they don't start serving food till 8 so dinner tonight is crisps and an apple. On the way back we go into the banks again and with much perseverance it works. I am so happy at the fact I can draw money out of my account I couldn't care less they are charging me 2 quid to do it. The maximum withdrawal here is 50 quid but you can repeat the process as many times as you want but have to keep requesting to do another transaction when it prompts and it charges you each time. Money aquired to pay the hotel we go back to the room. There is only cold water so a brisk shower and radiator on full blast and I jump into bed. I'm so exhausted I sleep like a baby?Read more