Days Inn Villa Gesell

... extends right from one end of town to the other and passes numerous seafront restaurants and coffee shops - all closed at the moment but due to open soon, judging by all the maintenance work and painting going on. <br><br>Sunday the 8th and leaving day. We left the Hotel early just in case, as San Telmo is packed with antique stalls around all the streets near the Hotel on Sunday mornings. We got to Dakar Motos at 9ish and Martin, a Brit, who had just arrived from 5 ...

... bored. It was in Villa Gesell that we decided to try camping for the first time (there were a number of camping shops, so constantly passing tents set up on the side of the road must´ve planted the seed of the idea in us). Now, neither of us are exactly camping stalwarts, our experience of camping consisted of the back garden when we were young and a week in Palnackie when I [Lorraine] was 12. Despite that, we were quite up for the idea (prob cos of the nice weather) and ...

... mais je ne suis pas tres a l aise dans leur appart et ai vite fait le tour de ces bourgades qui, bien que flanquees de superbes plages, n'ont pas trop d'interet. Je pars donc a une centaine de km plus au sud, a Mar del Plata, grosse ville en bord de mer genre Cannes. Pas tres interessante de prime abord, mais la encore, ce sont les gens que je vais rencontrer qui vont faire la difference!

... is this (fairly disgusting) liquor that everyone seems to drink here. We also decided that instead of only ever ordering steaks, ribs and pork chops at the barbeque places, we should open our horizons a bit more so we ordered a bbq platter one night. We enjoyed the steaks, chorizo sausages and the pork that came with it, but the intestines and blood sausage didn't really float our boat! We tried everything to be good ...

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.

... Hopefully we will get better. The town is built amongst sand dunes some of which we explored on a quad bike. Even Mandy had a go and was a bit of a speed demon. It was nice to have all that space to play in after the hustle and bustle of Bs As. Made us feel like we were in the middle of the desert. Next stop is to Mar Del Plata to try and get a bus to Puerto Madryn.... fingers crossed the penguins are still there...

We then travelled down the coast to Villa Gesell, a small beach resort and stayed in a hostel with a lovely couple, Betty and Viktor, who made us feel really welcome and helped us work out where we wanted to go next... which was further down the coast to Patagonia. Nearly ...

... Him. Anyway the haircutting went smoothly and we had a nice relaxing time there as Omar shut the shop and we all sat around chatting. Omar was a bit of hippy and the talk mostly involved star signs, music and reiki - apparently we have good energy and he approved the Pisces / Libra combination. It really is such a different culture, business is unhurried, there is no pressure to pay and the people have all the time in the ...

... eran cerca de la peatonal, nos cansamos y nos sentamos en la plazoleta de paseo 106y av3, cerca de Dixit para quienes conozcan, alla me acorde q tenia un pedazo de diario clasificados de clarin.. y justo tenia la hoja de Villa Gesell, llamamos a un par y nos fuimos hacia uno q encontramos accesible ($40 c/u) se llamaba T3 en paseo 119 y av3... en si lindo pero la habitacion nuestra una kaka, no tenia ...