If you´re ever in El Calafate and you want to eat like an American (so stuffed you can´t walk...bit like ´It´s a Kockout´...) you could do a hell of alot worse than try Rick´s cafe. For 17 pesos (that´s just under 4 quid) we had an all you can eat salad buffet and as much freshly cooked meat as yuo could possibly desire. I had a steak bigger than my plate (and it was one of the best I´ve had so far) a sausage, a 1/4 of chicken and a bit of Jen´s lamb. We didn´t quite manage the grand slam, although Ben and Andy gave it a damn good go. Incidentally Andy´s Dad is a cow farmer and they once had a whole cow in freezer. It weighed 700kg and took 2 1/2 years to eat. So I guess you could say he is fairly well qualified to tell whether it´s good or bad mat and he said it was excellent!!! Ben on the other hand is young free and single and has set himself a challenge of, ahem, enjoying the company of a different girl in each of the country´s he´s visited. No luck in Chile in Argentina apparently but he did manage Brazil and Peru (alog with Canada and the States.)

So off to the capital today, should be fun, meeting with H & R either tonight or tomorrow and Jen´s still convinced (deluded?) that she´s going to get me tangoing...