Hotel Touring Club Trelew

Ik weet niet of je wel eens in een vliegtuig hebt gezeten en via de speaker het volgende gehoord hebt: "Please put your food tray in the pocket of the seat in front of you", maar das nie goed nie. Zeker als je net daarvoor nog zat te bespreken dat die Argentijnse piloten zo bizar hard het vliegtuig naar beneden gooien vlak voor de landing. Zou onze vlucht AR 2805 vlucht AR 1402,5 worden? Sure as hell hope not! Verder nog iets in het Spaans ...

... told me she was the resident professor for the museum, she was that knowledgable. Nearly all the fossils in the exhibition had been recovered from this province, with only a few replicas. They were quite adamant to insist that the largest dinosaur in history is the Argentinosaurus from South America, not the Ultrasaurus found in North America. I think that once an animalīs hip bone reaches the two story mark, the argument is rather moot, but thatīs ...

... reason other than it was 12 hours from BA (probably could still hear the jewelery) then promptly left after a few hours having realised there was pretty much bugger all there. So we arrived in Puerto Madryn, in the Welsh part of Patagonia. Yep, honestly ...

... gezeten, en weinig meer gezien dat wat pinguins, lamaīs, wat zeeleeuwen en uiteraard steppe, steppe, steppe.. Gelukkig hebben de zeeleeuwen het vanochtend helemaal goed gemaakt met Annelieke. Die heeft vanochtend gedoken tussen die beesies. Met ze gezwommen en ze geaaid, dat was een onvergetelijke gebeurtenis. Gelukkig maar, want dit is dan wel de enigste plek ter aarde waar dat mogelijk is. En dat pik je dan toch mooi ff mee in puerto Madryn! Kus

We were picked up early yesterday morning to go to Punto Tombo to see the largest Magellanic Penguin reserve in the world, a dolphin watching expedition and finally onto a Welsh city called Gaiman for Welsh tea. When we came outside and looked at the tour bus, it was the same crazy driver that had driven us a few days earlier in the same rickety old tour van that lacked in the suspension and shocks! Siobhan and I were lucky enough to be one of the first groups to be picked up so we ...

... the waiter knocked a wine glass over in my direction and soaked me. I had light trousers on, but fortunately it was white wine. Another good day - felt like home. P.S. The Hosertia Gwesty Tywi was a great place. The cheapest on our travels, and very homely and welcoming. Another P.S. At lunch we met a guy from Penarth. A couple next to our table were speaking in Welsh. She was a local, and had just returned from Wales to retire, and he was a friend visiting. Itīs a small world.

... and when we watched the sunset from the Ecocentro in Puerto Madryn it was similar, but the other end of the sky was a deep purple. Weird but cool. The Ecocentro is a touchy feely museum of the marine environment in Patagonia. It's got underwater ambient sounds playing and lots of facts on the sealife. Bridgett and I went fact-hunting and found out the following: - Sea lion bulls can have up to 150 mates in one season - Killer whales (orcas) beach ...