New adress

Okey, for those who want to visit me when I am back home, my new adress:

Mr. Cl. Kniphorststraat 12, Emmen

one year after

Hello everybody,


july 14th, if i am not mistaken today it is 1 year ago that I left Holland. so a reason for a party i would say. And I timed it perfectly since I just arrived back to Buenos Aires. We are staying at Pepe's house at the moment. he is a friend of Paul and we are very welcome! For tonight he also arranged a party and we also know which club we are going.... so probably tomorrow morning around 8 we will be back home :D:D:D

The last days in Bariloche was really cool as well. Paul and I went skiing for two days. the first day it was really sunny and since paul told me he could ski a bit, so I took him to a nice blue slope and in the first 3 minutes he made a really nice fall.... He first passed me with the words "hoooow maurice, I am going to fast, I cannot stop!!!!" , and the only thing I could do was watch and see him gaining speed and Turninçg around what ended in a nice backflip. after he confirmed to be okey I started laughing my ass of and started collecting his stuff ( he lost Hat, goggles, sticks and both ski's) :D:D:D after that we decided to take some easier ways.

In the night we went for dinner and some beers afterwards in Wilkenny (recommendable) but since we wanted to ski again we could not end to late neither could we get to drunk ( and some brazilian girl asked me to give her ski-clases the next day, so I had to be fit ;) ) . Wesley (a nice irish guy) was with us as well. eventhough he planned to get skiing he did not remember at what time the beerscooter dropped him off at home, But he went sking as well. With us was Rosana as well, she is a dutch girl we met the evening before.

That day it was snowing all the time and so after 2 bajadas we went for our lunch, which took us about 2.5 hours since the beers tasted very well. There I also decided not to go to the place where I would meet the Brasilian girl ( later on it turned out she stayed in town anyway, and i told her I had been waiting ... jejeje) after lunch we split up. I went up with Rosana, she with her snowboard I on skis and totally white like a snowman :) We looked up some black slope on the map and went there. We allready missed it because it turned out not to be prepared.... JUST AS WE LIKE IT. it was a pretty good off piste slope, but I gotta say it hurted to my legs. After that one we went to some other black slope and in the end took it off-piste as well.

in the night we went out until 6, which ment we only had 3 hours to sleep since we had to leave our hostel. At 11 Wesley woke up, told us he felt bad and whether we wanted to go for some beers: And that is how it went. until 3 in the bar and at 5 in the bus, nicely to sleep. And that bus got us to here and since than nothing special happend, at the moment people are coming in for the party so I better get going to the fridge to save the beer :D

Remember, in 6 days I am back home!

chao

Since the internet connection here is to bad to upload pictures to my dotphoto.com y will put some online here. Still takes a long time. so only from yesterday and today:

I think it is beautiful around here.

Puerto Pañuelos, close to Bariloche.

View from Cerro Campanario, close to Bariloche.

View from Cerro Campanario, close to Bariloche

View from Cerro Campanario, close to Bariloche

Lago Nahuel Huapi, shot from bariloche

Bye bye and photos of the NOT jumping whales and the NOT sea lions eating orcas will be online ASAP

Hello everybody!

hm it seems I am a little late with updating to you, but we have our reason!! instead of staying in Puerto Madryn we decided to go straight into the peninsula valdes and find a hostel there. But the town (Puerto Piramides) is pretty much a ghost-town so internet is not known there. none-the-less we had a very good time there.

We arrived last wednesday around 11 in the morning and after checking in to our hostel we booked a whale-watching tour for the afternoon. And yeah we saw some whales, but i gotta say, they have to do something about there ears... I asked them several times to jump but they didn't :(. Later I will put the pictures online but there are all similar, dont know whether it was because I was to slow with my camera or because they are such bad models.

That evening we sat on the sea-side on some rocks, watched the bay and the whales there while the sun was going down behind us. We shot some nice pictures, but still no jumping whale.

Thursday was the day to have a land tour trough the peninsula valdes, which ment sitting in a van the whole day looking out the window for some wild-life. That was a nice day, but also rather boring since the nature is every-where the same. The Highlights of that day where the "big" salt flats which are the lowest point in South America (minus 41 meters) and punta cantor where we found a sea-lion and sea elephant colony. Around there swim orcas as well, but of course I did not see one :( it is always the same, those photographers of national geographic see jumping whales and orcas catching a seal from the beach and we.... Nothing :(

Our tour brought us back to Puerto Madryn that afternoon and we wanted to stay there one more night to have the friday to see the beach and looking for some more whales, of course not to swim since it was rather cold.
But we changed that plan, we took a bus that night to bariloche because the busses for friday and saturday where full allready, and it would have been to boring to stay in Madryn 3 days.

so it happend that we arrived in esquel (6 hours from Bariloche) since they could only sell us tickets to there from madryn. so we bought tickets for the next part to bariloche, left esquel, ate breakfast in the bus and then... there came the host, " Uhm... the bus just turned and we are heading back to Esquel since the pass is closed"... GREAT, there we were in Esquel waiting for 4 hours at the bus terminal... going outside was tooo freezing cold and inside where to many people... And then came the best news from our buscompany, yeap the bus is NOT leaving today.... that while 3 other companies just announced that they where leaving in 30 minutes... I almost freaked out, but then realised that that is backpacking, you never now what happens. fortunately our company was part of some other company that was leaving and we could just hop in another bus at the last moment. Sooo with a small delay we arrived in Bariloche at 17.00 instead of 11.00, but that didn't matter since the trip over the pass was pretty niche, you will see that later on the pictures. When we got off the bus Paula was wondering when we traveled to Finland.

And here I am in Bariloch in a really nice hostel, in a domr with a nice view and a living room on the third floor with a even better view of the lake and surrounding mountains. Though it is pretty cold here we are doing fine, saw a bit of the city which makes us feel like some austrian ski town (only the dutch cars all around missing)
Friday night was random drinking night, Yesterday was party night. Around 2.00 we went to Wilkenny, a nice pub with way to many people. but hey it was nice there, met a lot of brasilians, Australians and Irish. After a while we decided to go to a club... but the entrance was 75 pesos argentinos... ¿are they crazy?, normally it is around 20 in Buenos Aires and in Tandil only 5... Would be the same as that Sala Murano asks 15 luca.... anyways we got back to wilkenny and stayed there until 6, walked back, helped someone pushing his car, went to sleep and here I am with a hangover behind the computer.

Tuesday Paul/Palito will be here as well and on wednesday we will go skiing, so it seems the party will go on!!

To my dutch readers: see you soon
To my chilean readers: I miss you
To the rest: nos vemos pronto

Chao