Justine and Dylan’s Travel Blog

Well, Xmas day was certainly a little different this year. Compared to last year (on a plane to Oz) and the previous year (in wintery London), this year was spent in sunny Bariloche in Argentina.

We only had a couple of days here and so we decided to do one of the hikes we had planned (loop to Refugio Frey around Nahuel Huapi National Park) on Xmas day. Not the most laidback option (especially considering the ski lifts which would normally reduce the walk by 5kms and 600m of ascent weren´t manned that day… strangely enough 8-), but glad we did it. 27 kms of walking, sliding, boulder climbing and some light jogging (to make Xmas dinner on time!) later, we had seen some awesome scenery including panoramas of Nahuel Huapi lake, waterfalls, valleys and mountains reminiscent of Switzerland, a condor and even snow (Justine even made a snowman… way too much energy!), all under a dark blue and very sunny sky. Awesome. And yes, we are a little crazy.

To finish off the day (and ourselves), we managed to get back in time to join the others from the truck for a Xmas dinner at an Argentinian microbrewery (or cervezeria). Slept well that night.