Posada Del Bosque Charme Htl Carilo

... a quick off ramp U-turn and we were soon on Ruta 2 South.

The day is absolutely perfect for riding, with not a cloud in the sky and probably 25degrees C, there is a bit a cross wind but nothing too major. The road surface is great and we quickly settle into a quiet 60MPH, which seems a good Sunday speed. Only the occasional car flying past doing 120 or so.

Lunch time rolls around at 1pm and we stop for a break at one of the many very well maintained and ...

... and that we would have to sleep in the street!! EVENTUALLY, we reached what seemed to be the centre of town and happened upon a hostel just behind the main street that looked really nice. With a room secured for a couple of nights we finally relaxed, took our packs off and had a sit down..........not a good idea, the bed collapsed beneath us and we were left flailing on the floor (probably looked as funny as it sounds). You could say that our first day in Villa Gesell had ...

... 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.

... are like riding first class on a plane, with huge seats that fold back completely into beds. Kyle lucked out by getting the front seat on the top level- what a view! Our last day in Buenos Aires (until May) was spent strolling through the craft market in San Telmo, walking to the Ethnographic Museum, the Muesum of Fine Arts and finally on to a Tenedor Librador - an all you can eat deal in an upscale neighborhood. And we ate. A lot ...

... 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!

... the whales. they just swam up n down a bit, not looking very hungry. a couple of irish guys on the trip were more disappointed as they´d "paid to see blood" but secretly Trish was relieved. Typical Veggie. we made a few stops to see penguins, one had a cold & kept sneezing, a boat ride out to see the sealions - random fact: elephant seals can hold their breath for 2 hours & dive down to 1500m, & did a little bit of snorkling - saw 4 fish. not a ...