Hotel El Pasajero Tandil
Gral Rodriguez 783 Tandil, Province of Buenos Aires, Central Argentina, Argentina
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Escale dans la Pampa
... droit a une bonne averse ... aussi interminable que la taille des champs dans la Pampa !
Apres une journee tres humide, on a eu le droit de gouter au mate pour se rechauffer. C'est une sorte de the vert qu'ils boivent tous ensemble avec des bombillas (sorte de paille en argent).
Voila, on continue notre route vers le Sud, direction les pingouins de la Peninsule Valdes.
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Tandil: Reunion of friends
... party animal she used to be, when she'd stay up half the night and then be up at 5am to get shoulder deep in 60-100 horses a day (what with her 12 hour sleeps and two hour siestas).
We are staying at a hostel just up the road but have been spending the afternoons with the family, seeing the various beauty spots around Tandil and eating great food including our first ice cream. Ice cream is something of a speciality in Argentina ...
Enterprising and impressive town
The Tandil Sierras gently giving this area character are also lower, older hills, surrounding this bustling, well-organized city. Tandil is impressive in many ways: recent investments in basic infrastructure, good well-paved and well-illuminated streets, many green areas open to all, with bike and running paths, this town gives out a lot ...
'Helping' at Hogar Belen
Well after a couple more days in Buenos Aires we caught an overnight bus to Benito Juárez, a little town about 5-6 hours south. On arrival we were greeted at the bus station by Julia, who, with her husband, run a home for boys. We'd been given her contact details by Mr. Patrick and Mrs Ali who'd visited on a previous occasion. From her greeting you would have thought that we were long lost friends and instantly we were made to feel incredibly welcome. We were whisked off to the home ...
Meat, cheese and stone
... B&B host Judy Hutton, who whisked us away to our central oasis a few blocks from Plaza Independcia.
Judy arrived in Argentina over 30 years ago and has been a Tandil local for the last 10 or so years. With her extensive knowledge of the town and surrounding area, we had hatched a plan of how to fill in our following 2 days by the time we had arrived at the B&B.
That evening we headed straight to Tandil's most famous restaurant Epoca ...


