Thursday 30th January 2025 Trelew to Puerto Madryn
Had a little walk around the quaint city, pretty weird with all the streets having Welsh names, went into a little museum, that told the story of the first Welsh immigrants, mainly from North Wales, the city is actually twinned with Carmarthen. Even pulled the Welsh heritage thing out, when we had to pay to get into the Museum, said my Dad was Welsh so can we get in for free, sadly it did not work, signed the visitors book “Land of My Father, Bingo & Gringo”

We met our new friend Eddie for evening meal in the Touring Hotel, bar/restaurant, interesting guy if not a bit strange, he has been on the road for three years, down from Alaska to South America, some interesting stories, well for us strange touring guys it was, Sandra did not seem to impressed when I told her! All in all an enjoyable night, we bade our farewells as he is staying in Trelew for a couple of days.

Left Trelew just as the sun was breaking through, just in shirt selves, the temperature was 24 degrees Centigrade at 6ish in the morning, going to be a hot windy day by all accounts. Bingo navigated us out of the city with ease, then spent the 15 miles on a new section of road that had not been opened, had the road to ourselves luxury.

Made excellent progress in the early hours, but could feel the wind picking up and the temperature souring, had a little break on the side of the road, in the only shade we could find, as we were sitting down I said to Bingo, do I smell of fish? thats all I have been smelling since we joined this road, he laughed said it was the trucks passing us filled up with fish waste, well that was a relief. Checked the maps their seemed to be a petrol station around 12 miles away, lovely my head already dreaming of a “Magnum ice-cream” kept us both going, as the headwind was getting stronger and stronger.

Finally made it to the petrol station had a great hours break, ice-cream cold drinks and sweet coffee, living the dream, Bingo also had a cunning plan, (Baldrick still hasn’t joined us) that would knock of a few miles, in meant turning off the fish highway a bit early then heading inland on the “ripo” tracks, seemed like a good idea. Fair play it would have saved us a few miles if the AirBB place we thought we was going to stay at, was actually an AirBB place, turns out it wasn’t. Both of our faces dropped a bit as the place had a lovely swimming pool in the garden, though the lovely people staying there filled our water bottles up and gave us directions to a nearby glamping site, this could be fun. Push on a mile or so with Bingo shouting next right, no not this the next one or the next one, finally got there, field with a half built house, two steel containers and a log cabin, but more importantly no dogs it seemed. We went in Bingo went to the log cabin I went down to the half built house as I could see a guy down there, result he said we could stay in one of the containers, would get the lady to come out and meet us. Five minutes later this jolly rather large bouncy lady came running up to me, gave me a big cuddle and a kiss, I was petrified, but Bingo was having none of this he was straight in for his cuddle and a snog (Maybe a new partner on the horizon?). All sorted with the help of goggle translate, she even cooked us a little lunch, tortilla and a nice onion, sweet corn and eggplant vinegar thing, very nice. Said we could use the kids pool to cool down in if we wanted too, so after both had a soak in it, felt great to loosen off our weary legs. The wind is now around 50mph, hopefully it will die down tomorrow.

Early night tonight, got some cycling to do in the morning.