St Christopher wreck, Ushuaia

Our last night in El Calafate was memorable. Our tour guide lives there and is well connected to her community so she got her friend Diego who runs an unconventional restaurant out of his home and back yard to put on a dinner of whole lamb cooked before an open fire. We sang for our supper by making the empanadas. Dough and filling were prepped so all we had to do was make dough balls, roll them out nice and thin, put in the filling, fold them up and create the twisty edge. I'd never done the latter so I got a private lesson from Diego and then I was off like a pro. The extra shows Diego, the lamb, the fire and the empanadas being cooked. The atmosphere was zinging. 

We were all feeling a bit dusty this morning from the smoke, an excess of food, lots of good wine and a late night. Fortunately it was a late start for our flight to Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city. My main shows the wrecked boat St Christopher. Originally the HMS Justice, it was launched in 1943, having been built in the USA as a rescue tug and transferred to the Royal Navy for the remainder of WW2. In 1947 it was sold to Argentina, did some salvage work, suffered some damage and was beached and abandoned in Ushuaia harbour in 1957, where it remains, against a backdrop of (more) mountains. 

Thanks dear blippers for following my travels and your generous responses. Looking forward to catching you up. As much as I'm enjoying this trip, it's full on with near nil free time. Xxx