Hey lads! Time to move on after our Xmas break by the beach. We chosed Villa Gessell as the meeting point with old friends to expend Xmas, and the decision turned up to be pretty good. It is a beach town 350Km south of Buenos Aires, not very crowded and with decent beaches, do not get us wrong, nothing to compare with the Caribbean or even the Mediterranean but hey, cool enough to go swimming on Xmas day!
We met up with Conor and Liz (first time we met them was in Chile and we shared some days in La Paz with them too), Pauline (we shared many days & paintings with her in Sucre), and randomly we met here Ana & Alejandro (old friends from Sucre's days too). All together organised copious meals, huge asados (barbacues) where we devoured all type of Argentinian meat, a typical stuffed Irish turkey for Xmas dinner-lunch at 10Pm!, yeah Nuria froze the turkey again by mistake...Here the lads from Tipp' and Carlow proved some incredible cooking skills! And we tasted and drunk countless Argentinian wines and beers. We could not have had a better Xmas away from home. A perfect company, every day going to the beach and heavenly meals.
A mention a part should go for the Hostel we found, an absolute paradise. A place with all the kitchen facilities that we needed, with plenty green areas, with a super-friendly staff and with loads of animals hanging around: Parrots, toucan, flamingos, tortoises, dogs, rabbit and a weird dwarf pony!
Today we will take a bus to San Martin de los Andes in the Lake District and close to the Patagonia. There we plan to burn some of the calories gained during the last days and go trekking and camping. Pauline will join us for the next days.
Oh, and we got another fantastic Xmas present, this one over the phone, in the next days we will meet Maria & Igor (friends from Cork with whom we already shared part of this trip in Thailand) in the South of Chile, so we will end up our round the world trip with them. Amazing!
That is all guys! Next days will be green and blue! Lakes and mountains are waiting for us!
All the best! Love.
2 comentaris:
Wow!! por un poquito no ven a mi tia que va a hacer una obra de teatro por Gessell!
Feliz Navidad che, un fuerte abrazo y a empezar con todas las pilas el 2008!!
Juanma
hi guys, camille here, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!! i'm writing now with a bit of a hangover (of course!!) we had a great new years eve - my sisters and brothers and me rented the room upstairs in the spalpin fanach and threw a big party. there were 9 evans' and friends from everywhere with plenty of drink and great music (I was the DJ!!!!!) we thought of you guys on the other side of the world and how we ll be seeing you again in a few weeks. CRAZY!!!! anyway lots of love and best wishes for 2008 from me and nico and hasta la proxima xxxx
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