Days Inn Villa Gesell

... we ended up walking in completely the wrong direction and wasted about half an hour walking in a big circle to end up, yeah you guessed it, right back at the bus terminal!!! Thankfully, in the time it took us to make our little round trip, the tourist information office had opened and we were able to obtain a street map on our second visit to the terminal. Right, map in hand, we headed towards the town centre in the right direction this time. We were not prepared ...

... C'est assez marrant, je suis un peu mal a l'aise au debut mais prend vite confiance et resterai finalement plus d'une heure a partager l'antenne avec lui et un collegue. Bonne experience. Ensuite il prendra le temps de me montrer tous les environs (Pinamar et Ostende entre autres) en voiture et de me presenter a beaucoup de locaux car Alejandro est un peu une star locale. C'est assez ...

... but we both agreed that it was probably out last foray into the world of intestine cuisine. In any case, we both really liked the town. It was beautiful and laid back and felt more like a traditional honeymoon. I also think it would be a really different experience in-season when all the beachside patios were full of holidayers. It would probably be excellent! Well, that's about it for Argentina for us...off to Uruguay.

We spent a few days at this coastal town, about 5 hours south of Buenos Aires, as a stopping off point to Puerto Madryn. The weather was lovely so we had a couple of very long walks on the beach, along with a few good seafood dinners. As we were off-season the town was quiet but there were enough people there for the weekend to make it feel lively enough. A really attractive place to chill out for a couple of days.

... Our fashion points went up tremendously considering the rest of our garb is quick-drying technical clothing... A random observation - if you don´t own a pair of coverse yet, you are way behind the fashion curve. No joke, everyone in B.A. wears some type of Converse All-Stars. We wandered into one store and found other brand name shoes, like Merrill, copying the all star style! Nothing beats drinking coca cola out of a glass bottle.

... murdered, and all their other songs started to sound like ´cum-bye-arghhhhh´ we could take no more. The ipods came out and were cranked up to the max for the rest of the journey. When we finally escaped the asylum of the bus we found Camp Afrika next to the bus terminal and so decided to camp for the first time. The camping was fine, a little way off the road and in amongst the trees, but the rave next door ...

... its all reggeaton so you just hear that beat as you walk down the streets). I started talking to some kids cause EVERYONE speaks PERFECT english their cause their all kids from like 18/25 that went to american schools and spoke english for half of every day at school, so I met some kids and ended up talking to them for the rest of the night and they were so much cooler than everyone else in Pinamar. The streets were overflowing with jocks everywhere and slutty drunk ...

... our room due to dodgy shower!! We spent some time on the beach, which was lovely, weather hot and sunny - it´s late spring at the moment. We´re on our way down to Patagonia now stopping at a few places and beaches along the way - on our first overnight bus journey tonight!

Dara - First off, I´d like to say ´break a leg´ to all the folks in Windmill Theatre´s Guys and Dolls production. I wish I could be there to see it. I saw a Broadway show here in Argentina, but it just wasn´t the same. It was in Spanish. We´re in Villa Gesell right now. I know, I´ve never heard of it either. This is what happened; we went to the bus station, we took a ...

... and it was basically just an overdeveloped resort (not at all how the rough guide described it), so we were very glad we had decided to camp out of town and had our own big beach with so few people. The town did however have lots of cool little craft shops and hippie stalls and an excellent ice-cream parlor. On one of our trips into town we took the brave step of going to the hairdressers. Luckily an English speaking ...