Puerto Madryn

Today started out with little more than the idea of

“let’s just walk around a bit”.

We walked along the malacon for about a kilometre

before turning back out of sheer boredom. The town

is nothing special. On return we walked along the edge

of the ocean wavelets B-R-R-R!  The cold water

temperature did not stop the local children doing

their swimming lessons however. I think these

Canadians have gotten a little “soft”. Ha-ha

This is a panoramic shot I took

We realized we had overdressed so we went back

to the ship, put on shorts and put away our jackets.

Back in the town we went to the local tourism office

and got information on a natural history museum and

the first schoolhouse built in Patagonia. First was the

museum. Utilizing a mansion built by a pioneer we

found the house was more interesting than the museum

artifacts (although in truth the artifacts were well

presented and were of good quality). We just happen

to like that style of house. We were probably in the

museum for 15 minutes at most before heading

down the street to the “Casa Toschke”. This was a

gem of a visit. An original school built by a German

in 1903 (and almost all of both buildings are still

completely original). The guide gave us a history

lesson as this area was originally built up by people

from Wales fleeing the oppressive English overlords.

We were very impressed with this place.

Now it was a bit past 1 PM so we went to a nice

restaurant to have some local cuisine and Argentinian

beer/wine. Of course the restaurant had wi-fi so

I could send some e-mails and text chat with the kids.

The late afternoon was spent playing crib/relaxing/watching

the tour buses returning/eating a light supper;

and later me getting ready to watch the football game

between Alabama and Clemson which starts at 10 PM

(yikes!)

Today we did 11.6 kilometres,13 floors (so far),

and 18,500 steps. To both of us it didn’t feel like we had

done that much.