16^th February      Leaving Buenos Aires and flying to Calafate

We stayed the night at the Bel Aire hotel in Buenos Aires.  We had a lovely spacious room with a small sofa and table which was very comfortable.  However the room overlooked the street which although provided a great view, could be a bit noisy.  We thought it best to go for a smaller room at the back of the hotel when we return to Buenos Aires for 3 nights at the end of our trip.  At breakfast we met up with Neil and Becky and arranged taxis to take us to the domestic airport for our internal flight to Calafate.  Luckily Becky double-checked the flight time because we were flying out an hour later than we had originally thought.  Another near disaster!  But we caught our flight just fine and the 3hr journey passed quickly and pleasantly chatting to a Canadian gentleman who was originally from Glasgow.  Quite a character and very entertaining .  Once at Calafate we shared a taxi to the Design Suites Hotel with Neil and Becky.  The hotel is located on the shores of the beautiful Lake Argentina and our bedroom has the most wonderful view of the lake, mountains and glacier in the distance.

At 7 o’clock we met up with the other delegates for the conference reception.  (It was still really light at this time). We were treated to some live tango music and dancing which I enjoyed very much.  We also managed to slip out onto the balcony to catch a really lovely sunset – beautiful.

The Design Suites Hotel where the conference was held

The view of Lake Argentina (Lago Argentino) from our bedroom window

Huge window to look out from

Spa bath!  Will be great when I work out how to use it.

 

Dancers dancing to live Tango music at the conference reception

Sunsets over Lake Argentina