Hotel Arenarena Villa Gesell

... goes in search of a Hotel. Jools comes back 20 minutes later, having seen 5 hotels - 3 closed and two open but pricey. We decide to head to the main drag and after another 20 minutes spot the Hotel Royal. <br><br>All in all Jools and I are very happy with the first day on the road, the bike is going well and we are both comfortable. The traffic seems manageable and relaxed (OK it was a Sunday) and life is great!!!<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br><br><br><br><br><br>

... 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 ...

... there are deck chairs on the beach and a roof top patio overlooking the boardwalk and the sea. We got to know Frederico who runs the place and have promised to help him get his place into the Lonely Planet since its one of the only places thats open all year round. We was great to have a beer with and since everything was pretty quiet, he had lots of time to hang out with us. He gave us our first (and last) Fernet ...

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...

... Theirs like 5 of them and they're all in a rock band together and they all LOVE american music it was awesome. At like 5 or so we went down to the beach and watched the sunrise then I went back to the house. Then the next night I somehow ran into them again and ended up hanging out with them but the bar that we were at (the one their friend owns)got shut down because of underage drinking so that sucked alot for them cause they shut it down for 4 days or somethimg and ...

... 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 ...