Sol de Patagonia Puerto Madryn

After arriving in Puerto Madryn with no accommodation we were told that it was a busy bank holiday and there was little or no rooms available.<br><br>We walked around for an hour, a lady that owned a hostel with no beds even rang a few different hostels for us. We eventually arrived in the ...

... National Park, about 100km awy, again for the Wales, can`t get enough of them. This time to get a boat out to see them up close. The port was closed all morning due to high winds so we were hanging about for a bit, but again the beach was stunning, a bit colder today though. When the port did open up, about 1430, most people had given up so instead of sharing a 10m long, twin 250hp zodiac RIB with upto 60 other tourists, we had ...

... friendly little place just a few blocks from the sea front, we are told it is currently high tide and the whales can sometimes be seen from the pier... dump bags, coffee in hand and a dash to the pier. Bugger it was cold standing watching for whales, but we were rewarded with a glimpse of two of them a few hundred metres from the shore, and a couple of seals who seemed intent on entertaining us. However, better was still to come.<br ...

... in both Spanish and Welsh which was kinda weird to see. We decided to go to the oldest teahouse in the town and sat down to some high tea. My God, it was amazing!!! For 40pesos (around 8 pounds) each we were served a huge pot of tea (complete with tea cosy), bread and scones with butter and jam and 8 (count them) EIGHT pieces of cake each!!! [N.B - we have pics of our high tea but can´t post them yet cos they´re on my phone and don´t have the cable with me ...

... it would end up being another 50 person huge group, and when we got picked up in a car and started driving out of town we thought we must be meeting up with the rest of the group a bit later. Well it turned out that we were the only ones ! Private tour, now I didn't think we had enough money for this kind of treatment (and considering we ...

... taking a tour and meant we could spend as long as you want with the penguins, although we discovered that 2 hours was the upper limit for us. Jon drove and although the journey was without incident it was very boring as the landscape is very flat, dusty and stoney. Plus a large proportion of the journey was on gravel road and we were paranoid we would chip the paint or windscreen and therefore you have to drive very slowly. Not that this ...

... Heb nog even overwogen om me te laten pikken door zo´n beest (zou toch een litteken met een ubermooi verhaal zijn), maar durfde uiteindelijk toch niet :) Wel echt bijzonder om zulke dieren die ik eigenlijk altijd associeer met sneeuw en ijs zo te zien puffen en de brandende zon. De volgende ochtend zijn we nog naar Trelew gegaan om hier te gaan varen met dolfijnen, echt heel gaaf!!!

... We then caught the ferry back to Buenos Aires and made our way back to get ready for our night out! We had managed to book a table at a great steak restaurant nearby so had time to have a few drinks in the hotel, we had a nice chat with an american couple who had just finished touring Argentina (they gave us plenty of tips which was great), and the following exchange took place:Lorraine - "Hi I´m Lorraine"Monique - "Monique"Lorraine - "No, Lorraine"Well it ...

... te. L'he tastat vàries vegades i no m'ha convençut. Es una tradició, van amb una tassa de fusta i tothom comparteix la tassa. Hi pots afegir sucre al teu gust. I, sobretot, sobretot, no es pot barrejar, ni beure molt calenta ni molt freda. Ha de ser tèbia. Doncs, tothom està a la platja perque fa un bon dia, molta calor. Aquesta passejada em recorda molt a alguns pobles de la Costa Brava amb el passeig marítim. És força modern, edificis alts, amb xiringuitos a peu de ...

... again.<br><br>We have another day at sea today (Friday). Jim and Carol were (not so)pretty shades of red last night at dinner so I think they will probably find a different place to spend their time today. I think that rather than going to most of the briefings today I will wait and watch them on TV in the room. Yesterday during the briefs the theater was filled beyond capacity as people were standing in the back and sitting on the stairways. I was surprise that was ...