Still in Bariloche!

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Hi all,
well!, i´m still in Bariloche, a lovely mountain resort town. There´s lots of hiking to do here, but its a tad cold, and i´m a tad lazy these days....its a good thing they have loads of cozy coffee shops where you can eat chocolate-based cakes and stuff while washing it all down with tea and coffee...they do a good cup of tea here- leaves, strainer the lot!
I met an irish fella from Navan the other day, who was extremely similar to me.....a combination of myself and Colin Byrne....slightly disturbing really!
The funniest thing to happen me so far was my incident with toboggan yesterday!. What looked to be a pretty tame kiddies toboggan run(basically a little plastic thing on wheels that runs down a concrete run) turned into a monster of a thing. Me and a young belgian girl raced each other as there were two runs side by side....I won of course....but it was so good that I decided to have another go!....so next time i tried to go even faster, but ended up losing control and flipped the thing and ended up sliding down the run on my belly.....it was very funny!

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Photos

the big man
the biggest naked man i have ever had the pleasure to stand beside.....for some reason he was at the top of a ski lift in bariloche....

bariloche view
taken from a rotating restaurant on the top of a mountain

sunrise at Villarica Volcano
We start climbing the volcano in total darkness, it was cool seeing the sunrise as we ascended the volcano, which you could see the snow covered peak, illuminated by moonlight

sunrise at volcano
another sunrise piccy!

volcano again
sunrise again, with the moon in shot too

volcano at sunrise again
...what a photo!

the crazy ice-axe man
I ´m all suited up, complete with ice axe and crampons, still another 3hours to get to the top thoug. the views were class though

view from the volcano
see below, the lowlands are all covered with cloud, but because we´re up high, its nice and sunny where we are!

the gang
this is a group who i climbed up with....interestingly the hostel i was staying in is owned the fella who was climbed this volcano more times than anyone else in the world....over 1700 times in his life!....

The summit
here´s me enjoying a few ham and cheese sambos at the top, with the bellowing crater in the background....at this point i was dying for a nice cup of tea, beleive it or not!

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Piccies
As discussed previously, stick your piccies on PhotographersDirect.com and see if you can sell them. Good to hear you're still enjoying it all. Hope the rest of the trip goes equally well.