Today is another massive travelling day. We are going from Bariloche to Medoza which
is quite a long journey. An amusing diversion
I’ve developed (amusing for me anyway) is mapping where we are in terms of
degrees south to degrees north in Europe.
So far we have done from Newcastle (Ushuaia) to Plymouth (El Calafate)
to La Rochelle (Perito Morneo) to Porto (Bariloche) and now we are moving onto
Casablanca. So it has been quite a
hectic three weeks, and most of the distance has been done in the last week.
The good thing about this overnight bus is that it only starts at 13:00 so checking out of the hostel is not too stressful. In fact we even get an early lunch (salad, we know we have to keep our 5 a day up here ourselves, as the meals can be quite meaty) and some photos done in a café before going to the bus terminal.
The bus itself is a revelation, far better than anything we have been on before, a double decker, and we are in the lower posh class. So we get decent leg room, almost flat beds, and a dinner, which is almost entirely made of dulche de leche (a caramelly type substance). We stop in Neuquen bus terminal at 19:00, which is a very modern and nice terminal, even having airport style carrousels for bags, and best of all, baggage trolleys. Here we mistakenly order two dinners in the cafeteria, when one had enough meat for both of us. The hamburger I got was the size of the dinner plate.
After that it is onto the bus to Mendoza. This is a similar bus, although slightly older, which means that instead of using your own headphones for the films it is on a speaker. Other than that it was fine, although the same cannot be said for the film choices. It began to look like eating our dinner had been a good choice (although they did give us some more dulche de leche at about 20:30 to keep us going), as the hours ticked by with no food, but then at 23:15 came dinner, a turkey and ham dinner with mashed potatoes, and jelly for dessert (all with wine if you want). This and the one decent film of the day starting at 23:00 meant we didn’t get asleep until well after midnight.
The good thing about this overnight bus is that it only starts at 13:00 so checking out of the hostel is not too stressful. In fact we even get an early lunch (salad, we know we have to keep our 5 a day up here ourselves, as the meals can be quite meaty) and some photos done in a café before going to the bus terminal.
The bus itself is a revelation, far better than anything we have been on before, a double decker, and we are in the lower posh class. So we get decent leg room, almost flat beds, and a dinner, which is almost entirely made of dulche de leche (a caramelly type substance). We stop in Neuquen bus terminal at 19:00, which is a very modern and nice terminal, even having airport style carrousels for bags, and best of all, baggage trolleys. Here we mistakenly order two dinners in the cafeteria, when one had enough meat for both of us. The hamburger I got was the size of the dinner plate.
After that it is onto the bus to Mendoza. This is a similar bus, although slightly older, which means that instead of using your own headphones for the films it is on a speaker. Other than that it was fine, although the same cannot be said for the film choices. It began to look like eating our dinner had been a good choice (although they did give us some more dulche de leche at about 20:30 to keep us going), as the hours ticked by with no food, but then at 23:15 came dinner, a turkey and ham dinner with mashed potatoes, and jelly for dessert (all with wine if you want). This and the one decent film of the day starting at 23:00 meant we didn’t get asleep until well after midnight.
Any bus bingo yet?? Bring me home some caramel biccies please :-)
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