Apart Hotel Austral Rio Gallegos

Ok arrived in Rio Gallegos on my way to Ushuaia (the most southerly city in the world). Planned to come in by bus and then get the first bus out of here. Unfortionataly that isn't until tomorrow morning at 8:30 so off I trundle to find a place to stay (there is a place about 1km away ...

... to have a cup of coffee and warm up a bit, but there's no way I was going to stop in some **** town after riding 60 miles! I'd seen crosswinds before, like I said they're often more scary than dangerous. I repeated this to myself several times, and got back on the bike. Then it got worse. Now it was taking my full attention to keep the bike going straight in my lane. I slowed down to 45 and downshifted to 2nd to maintain hight revs, which gives ...

We stopped off here for 30 minutes on the way to Bariloche. Onlything of interest is that the stop is after a 6 hour ride from El Calafate and we are currently farther from Bariloche than we were when we started. Taking the less sceneic longer route is the only option.

... The line up of people doubling in size as we wait. My estimate is they will be standing in line for over 3 hours. Entering Chile was quick and straight forward. As we rolled along we had to get on a ferry to cross the Strait of Magellan. Ruta 3 continued for several kms and it finally ended and we followed road number 257. This was by far the worst road we have traveled on this trip, huge washboards and ...

... is leaving in an hour, and I'm still in the pub! After a sketchy 12 hours on the bus leaving Tierra del Fuego, Argentina back into Chile, out of Chile again and back then back into Argentina, what a palaver, its a 4 hour wait for the bus to El Calafate.

... larger sealion swimming in the sea. He kept swimming around for a bit, then diving down so that we couldn´t see him, but after a couple of minutes he would be back again, and we watched him for quite a while. It was soon time to catch our bus to Rio Gallegos, a journey of about 16 hours. Actually it was absolutely fine. We got a good seat ...

... die hier herkommen sind eigentlich alle auf der Durchreise. Entweder nach Ushuaia (die südlichste Stadt der Welt), in die Antarktis, nach El Calafate, Gletscher anschauen, oder so wie ich auf der durchreise nach Puerto Natales um in den National Park zu kommen. Bin hier also ein wenig durch die Stadt gelaufen hab eine Statue von Eva Peron ...

... of our mediocre Spanish skills. At one point Nadine walked into the family kitchen only to find a dining table full of merry Chilean people (eating together is a very big deal for families) having a complete dinner party whilst all our laundry was hanging up around their heads and strung up at every nook and cranny hanging space in the room, drying above the gas stove that was turned up full flame. The electricity had gone out mid-afternoon and the washing we ...

... my prescriptions, getting a several month supply. While I went to the Tru-La internet, Liz looked, in vain, for something interesting to buy in this desultory town. It should be a central stop for all of southern Patagonia but it is so poorly organized that one is better off skipping it at all costs. It angers me that fate has made me know it so well. We met back at the hotel room where we meditated ...

Well, I left Puerto Madryn 2 days ago, ad got the bus down here. It was a looong journey, with lots of flat scrubby land. There was some interest at certain points, but mostly it was flat. Coincidentally, doing the same juorney as me was a couple (Ian and Karolina) who had been staying in the same hostel in Bahía Blanca.The bus had some technical problems, meaning that we were stuck in Caleta Olivia for a couple of hours, and yet couldn´t leave the ...