Cerro Catedral
Only 15 minutes from Bariloche is Cerro Catedral, a big patagonian ski resort. Chris and I felt like being proper travellers for a change and catch the local bus up to our posh hotel. That was interesting. The driver was on a mission to collect absolutely everybody, so we really didn´t need to worry about wether we would get on when we saw the rammed bus approach. Because he must have picked up about another 50 people after us.
It got to the point that I was doing ballet, there was only enough space on the floor for me to put one foot down.
But we made it to out beautiful hotel and settled in. Yeah right! We didn´t even see the room and Chris was undressing in reception getting ready to go boarding!
The room wasn´t going to be ready till the afternoon so we headed towards the equipment rental shop.
Cerro Catedral is a pretty pretend alpine village. It has dozens of ski shops, chocolate shops (of course) and ... hundreds of people dressed in the same clothes!
Aparently these are big groups of portuguese teenagers in their last year at school. There´s about 2 teachers to 100 pupils, and they all wear exactly the same clothes (for identification I guess). This is an orange group.
The funny thing is that none of them ski, so they get the lifts to the top of the mountain, sit on the snow and marvel at the stuff (it´s the 1st time most of them have seen it), and then come back down. That´s their schedule for the 5 day holiday.
It was hard to get a shot of Cerro Catedral without one of these technicolour groups in it, but I managed one...except I couldn´t help getting this strange guy in it. He kept following me.
Sam
P.S. Noticed anything missing from Chris´face in the last few entries?
It got to the point that I was doing ballet, there was only enough space on the floor for me to put one foot down.
But we made it to out beautiful hotel and settled in. Yeah right! We didn´t even see the room and Chris was undressing in reception getting ready to go boarding!The room wasn´t going to be ready till the afternoon so we headed towards the equipment rental shop.
Cerro Catedral is a pretty pretend alpine village. It has dozens of ski shops, chocolate shops (of course) and ... hundreds of people dressed in the same clothes!
Aparently these are big groups of portuguese teenagers in their last year at school. There´s about 2 teachers to 100 pupils, and they all wear exactly the same clothes (for identification I guess). This is an orange group.
The funny thing is that none of them ski, so they get the lifts to the top of the mountain, sit on the snow and marvel at the stuff (it´s the 1st time most of them have seen it), and then come back down. That´s their schedule for the 5 day holiday. It was hard to get a shot of Cerro Catedral without one of these technicolour groups in it, but I managed one...except I couldn´t help getting this strange guy in it. He kept following me.
Sam
P.S. Noticed anything missing from Chris´face in the last few entries?
posted by Chris at 6:22 PM
7 Comments:
Ohhhh, so that's Chris in the photo's is it?
I thought it was some munter female you had tagging along with you on your travels.
Mum thinks the beard goes well with the pony tail.
Dad prefers the clean shaven look.
The orange suited guys look like they have come straight out of a James Bond film
The orange suited people don´t look James Bondish when you see them up close though, they are about 14! There was a new group yesterday with military suits, they looked quite cool as a group.
P.S. Sam preferes clean shaven face too
It wasn´t in a PONY TAIL!
Thanks Best man - remember the wedding photos? Sam is crying with laughter remembering what you said.
What did I say?
All I remember of the wedding photo's is that I'm rediculously ugly and should never let a photograph be taken of me stood next to either you or sam ........ I don't remember looking like goldie locks (or brownie locks!) ....
Does ANYBODY have a photo of Harry when he had long hair. He seems to have forgotten what he looked like. Goldie locks?! If anyone has a photo please send it to me.
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