Les petits princes...

(Don´t worry, English is below)

Ayant et allant croiser les itineraires de St Exupery, et non par sursaut identitaire, je me permets de debuter cet article avec quelques mots de francais। On ne discute pas c'est comme ca. Pouf pouf.

Pour commencer, s'il vous plait, une photo du mont Fitz Roy flanque des monts Mermoz et Saint Exupery, entre autres... Les Argentins nous faisantl'honneur de conserver les noms de nos illustres pionniers de l'Aeropostale, nous ne pouvions nous empecher de fanfarronner un tantinet au premier plan...

Apres ce dense passage en Patagonie, nous remontons donc dans la region argentine des lacs ou nous nous trouvons actuellement (plus exactement a SanCarlos de Bariloche et San Martin de Los Andes) region aux splendides paysages, reconnue pour ses chalets, ses etendues de lacs et de monts verdoyants...
Notre prochain point de chute se situera sur la cote Atlantique de l'Argentine : La peninsule Valdes. Peninsule dont la cavite Nord a, pour la petite histoire, inspire St Exupery pour le dessin de son serpent mangeur d'elephant, aux airs de chapeau. A vous de le constater sur une carte. Je dis c'est fou, n'est-il pas ??
Nous rejoindrons ensuite Mendoza et ses vignobles, en bons fils d'ivrognes. Petit clin d'oeil a nos peres autant qu'a nos pairs...
Voila pour les nouvelles francaises et avant que ca tourne en ode a la francophonie...

let's go on in English!!! Where were we??
Yes!! Chile, Torres Del Paine, and then El calafate (at least a crack every 30 minutes).
Next we headed to El Chalten (" mountain which smokes"), kind of far west village still under construction, with warmy places and genuine atmosphere. Between two "smoking sessions", we had a chance to approach the Cerro Fitz Roy and enjoy the wonderful autumn colour range, a couple of condors and of course vagaries of climate!
After three days we decided to leave to the North, following the "Ruta 40", to Bariloche. Lakes, mountains, pine trees, chocolates, cycling, "SaintBernard" dogs, are we back in the Alps ??? We are currently still enjoying these amazing sceneries from San Martin De Los Andes, more pictures to come...

The last but not the least, I've heard of some George Lucas related comments in last Matthias' article. Let's keep up with the good metaphors through what is becoming your weekly "web serial":"Matthias and Chewbacca across South America".

Indeed, I omissed to mention Matthias had (hopefully) found some other occupations, which roughly consisted in bothering me with pointless suggestions (such as skydiving or going to the haidresser's in South America...). He is now totally focused on his knee which used to ache 10 days ago. Did not know he was that hypocondriachal. Thus it involves a brand new time schedule for him: half of the timewrapping with annoyance a fabric around his knee, the other half complaining and limping around. I had a flash then: "Il Cattivo" Wallash following "Il buono" Eastwood and "Il Brutto" Van Cleef in the desert, begging for water and support. THE nickname was found: that'll be TUCO, especially when Matt remains unshaved a few days long!!!

That's all folks!! I've nothing else to declare so far (except Matthias´eagerness to add comments on the next update)... As you asked us to, we'll try to upload more pictures on the website. Moreover if you want to come even closer you can join us a few weeks without any problem.You are welcome on board, we will have some support from London next week and it will be a pleasure to share our adventures!! Looking forward to reading you on the blog.

Hasta pronto chicos!!

Amancio "Chew" De Los Lagos y Matthiasso "Tuco" De La Pampa