No work for 6 months!

We arrived in Puerto Madryn, on the east coast of Argentina after a rather long 24 hour mini bus and coach journey, at half 3 in the morning!!! Being poor travellers we didn´t want to pay for a hostel for a few hours so we headed off in the darkness to find a cafe. As it was a friday night there were many people rather drunk hanging around the streets. Being called a yank by some of them was not too welcome!! Eventually found a cafe and had some food and drink to pass the time. At sunrise we headed off to sit on the beach and find a hostel. The town seemed like a nice area however during our morning stroll equiped with a full backpack, rucksack on our front, handbag and all, 3 guys and a stick (or broom handle!) decided we were a perfect opportunity for them to become rich, shame we had less than $1 on us!. After a few minutes and a few blows to Rob legs we were saved by a local guy shouting at them. The offer of some toilet roll out of Robs pocket didn´t surfice!

Our idea of staying in Peurto Madryn we slightly different following our morning attack! We booked the next bus out of there for that evening to El Bolson and hired a car to drive to Penninsula Valdes in hope of seeing some whales! This area is know for the wildlife (seals, dolphins and whales). Our luck was not in with the whales or any animal in fact but the picnic on the beach (admitidly in the car as it was so windy and the flies were slightly annoying) made up it. This must have been the most expensive day we have had, rented a car, paid a fortune to get into a national park to see non-existent whales, booked an expensive coach trip for 15 hours inland to the mountains and nearly got mugged. Thankgod we didn´t have any money on us!!