Hi all, We arrived in Bariloche two days ago, and it was like stepping into a different world. The bus journey was only 17 hours, but the climate, people and town are completely different to Mendoza. It was set up by Swiss settlers, so it´s all chalets, fairy lights and chocolate. And it´s FREEZING (well it is for us, we literally haven´t been cold for a month!). We´re all wrapped up in jackets, fleeces etc again. We literally feel like someone put us on a plane to Switzerland and didn´t tell us! The bus journey was fantastic, cama for the first time, and we loved it! Huge seats that reclined nearly all the way and lots of legroom, which Jay was thrilled about. There´s a full time steward guy who serves drinks, food, does the movies etc. That night, we had a two course dinner with wine served to us, and we watched Superman - random. They woke us up with breakfast at 6.30am, no idea why so early, so we had the usual supersweet biscuits and coffee. Then before lunch we had a game of bingo, hilarious!! The steward guy called out the numbers (thank God for our Spanish lessons!), and the first person to shout `bingo`won a bottle of bubbly. Jay thought he had a full house then but didn´t know if he`d got the numbers right. We were trying to figure it out and another woman shouted bingo, so he missed out on a brand new neck pillow, ha ha!! Amazing how different semi cama and cama is, and it was only 10 quid more expensive. We checked into our hostel at lunchtime, the views are incredible. It´s on the tenth floor of a council block-type building, facing right out over the lake, with mountains as far as you can see, our jaws dropped when we walked in! Massive kitchen and lots of sofas everywhere. We went on a great hike yesterday, we were still knackered from the bus journey so we were easy on ourselves and picked a three hour one. We got a bus about half an hour outside town, all along the side of the lake, just beautiful, there was a photo opp every few steps. Then we hiked for about an hour through forest and found a little trail that brought us right down to the edge of the lake. Probably the most amazing view we´ve had for lunch so far! We walked another two hours and we were starting to flag when the bus came along, perfect! We had a `wine tasting` party in the hostel last night, idea is to bring a bottle and some snacks. Not so much wine tasting as wine guzzling.. everyone just laid in, no one was very bothered what it tasted like! We got to bed at around 3am then had to get up and pack the room up for 10am. Everything was packed when we realised we couldn´t find the bus tickets for today, so we had to unpack everything again and finally found them in Jay´s book (where I think I put them there tipsy last night thinking it was the most obvious place in the world...) - not good with a sore head. Jay´s gone to watch the rugby this morning and I´m supposed to be going to the chocolate museum, but don´t think I´m going to make it that far, so I´m going to cut out the museum bit and just go for chocolate in one of the massive shops here instead... We get a bus at 3.30pm to Mar del Plata - back to the heat and our first beach since Brazil.. woo hoo! We get there at 11am tomorrow and the plan is to stay there a few nights before we get to our last stop of Buenos Aires. It´s only six hours from BA, so this is our last marathan bus journey, ah! Just can´t believe the trip is wrapping up now, it´s totally flown by. We`re thinking about Oz a lot now, so excited about getting there and setting ourselves up, and seeing everyone there. Will be fab to have proper friends again, and not have to say goodbye every three days! Hope everyone`s really well at home and the snow is starting to clear....