We had a late mooring rise as we have had too many early mornings lately and after breakfast caught the shuttle coach in to town to change some USD in to Peso’s and also a little shopping.
The only exchange place in town was closed until 6pm through to 8pm tonight, the nearest ATM had a sign saying not working and the other ATM had run out of money, but the good news is we got the bottle of water. So pretty much a wasted journey but the Hotel came to the rescue and did exchange USD$ 100.00 for us and that will tide us over nicely for time being.The tour coach was again late at 14.15 (30 minutes late) but you get used to this and we were on our way to look at Moreno Glacier from above and the side and this entailed a bus ride of about ninety minutes. The weather was perfect again and we spent three hours up and down stairs visiting the various view points and really enjoying the views.
We left there about 7.30 pm and after doing the usual El Calafate Hotel tour we arrived back at our Hotel just before 9 pm, tired and hungry, but not wanting to eat a main course and so we both had a starter of Garlic prawns on Malbec bread, and the prawns were also cooked in onion bits, together with one glass of wine.
Writing this at 10.30 pm there is a gale blowing outside with lot’sa rain.
Finally when checking on flight departure times, did I mention the Aerolinus cock up website, which shows the same flight operating at completely different times and today there was another new flight time posted, about an hour later than originally shown. So We checked the Al Calafate Airport departure board on-line and it still shows the original timing of 11.30 and not 12.20 and so we will go to the airport nice and early just in case.
Tomorrow will no doubt be a boring day with almost a five hour flight time which includes an hours stop in Bariloche, seem to remember being there.
In the meantime our knees ache and Noel ankles have swollen with the stairs etc.
Finally, just to make matters worse Chelsea lost 2 nil to Everton whilst the ARGENTINIAN Hotel male receptionist is a Tottenham supporter and they won 5 goals to nil and did he look happy?
