Blues on the Piste (or was that last night)

Blues on the Piste

Caterdal ski village, Bariloche

Robina, IB, Debo, Emanuel and Ese (at the front)

We met our friends from El Calfate, who stay in Bariloche on Saturday night for a few beers and they asked if we wanted to go snowboarding the next day. Of course, we jumped at the chance.

We arrived at Catedral mountain and it looked like somewhere in Switzerland, rather than Argentina. All the shops, hotels and even the hospital are all wooden, in a "Swiss style", and the snow and bright sunshine add to the effect. Got our boots and snowboards, for a mere 40 pesos each (which is about 7 quid), and the nursery slopes were free all day, so it only cost 14 quid for the day.....bargain.

Poor Ese was the one who got the short straw, and took us to the nursery slopes to try and learn how to snowboard. After half an hour of continuously falling, his patience paid off and we both managed to stay on our feet (today we have sore joints and sore bottoms). An hour or so later, we could both go down the slope, passing 3 years olds on their sledges (only falling a couple of times on the way) but we made it...HORRAYYYY

It was great fun and we cant thank Ese and Emanuel enough for taking us there. We are now both hooked and hope to do it again, wherever there is snow, although we have to wait for a week or so, to let our bodies recover.