Cooking in Hostels

Its always fun trying to find a time when all the equipment you need is available at the same time (I don´t mean anything fancy here, just two plates, two forks and a pan!). This particular hostel had just the one knife, but it made up for it by being a 2 foot long machete. Seemed a bit like overkill for chopping up a red pepper!

W(h)ales

February 19th 2008
Our first stops in Patagonia were the towns of Puerto Madryn and Trelew, in Chubut province (a 17 hour bus ride from Buenos Aires!) Puerto Madryn was founded in 1865, when a group of Welsh settlers were given land here after fleeing Wales due to religious and cultural persecution by the English. They landed at Puerto Madryn, and gradually moved west, founding Trelew, and a few other towns and vi ... read more

South America » Argentina » Chubut » Trelew

Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more

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