Argentina Archive

on from Valle la Angostura

** there’s an article about Shelterbox in Haiti on the BBC news site here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cornwall/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8472000/8472093.stm scroll down the page when it opens for news updates and links to pictures *** Before I write about the last couple of days can I just say… to everyone who made a donation and left me a message on my Just Giving page… thank you :-) You have no idea how much it means to me, not just the …

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a big chunk of cow

I am truly my own worst enemy, didn’t get into my tent till 1am… again… so allow me to introduce Juan & Elisa.. it’s all their fault. we lit a big fire for a BBQ and sent Eli off to get some meat while we, being typical males, played around with the fire and drank beer…. I had in mind a few slabs of beefsteak that would cook fairly quickly, it being around 9pm… but …

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El Jardin de Patagonia….

Hola, today I’m writing from Valle la Angostura in Argentina, it calls itself El Jardin de Patagonia… and it really is rather beautiful. The town looks and feels almost identical to Banff, same homogenous natural wood and stone architecture, shops geared towards mountain sports and so on.. very much the mountain resort… just without the Japanese tourists… but loads of Argentine visitors, busiest place I’ve seen so far :-) So, back to Monday evening…. having …

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