Welsh Teashop in Trevelin

The old woman in the picture is the grandmother of the owner of the shop. She died in 1986 aged 103 years old. The family trace their roots from the first colonists in the town

Patagonia is a Harsh Mistress

February 24th 2006
As promised at the end of the last blog, I've been on pilgrimage to Welsh Patagonia. Or, at least my stomach has, as I visited a number of Welsh tea shops. For those of you that don´t know, my mother was Welsh. When I was young ( I know that´s difficult to imagine), our parents used to take us down to visit the Welsh relatives in the school holidays. A highlight of those childhood visits was ... read more

South America » Argentina » Chubut

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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