Connection with people

It started in Buenos Aires where I met up a gentleman who helped me get a sube card . We met at the Obelisk and spent some time together . The coincidence is that I met him again a good 6 hours later in a different part of town . From Cordoba , a psychologist cool person nice meetup .

At Plaza de Mayo , some Argentinan tourists mum and two girls ask for directions which I could help . But then entered inn no to conversation as the daughter was going to London to study .

Overhearing our conversation were two 20 something year olds from the suburbs ( long way away ) of Buenos Aires but tourist here . They wanted to chat to me to practise English and to find out why and what did I think .

But no photos of the people above .

So ……… the photos …..

One of the gauchos coming off the dance floor at Feria matadores admiring the fact I was eating Locra . The Handkerchief is so important .

https://turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/en/otros-establecimientos/feria-de-mataderos

At the bus terminal, just like the dress.

Hola Arwyn soy Andrés. Andres helped get from Playa Reunión to Trelew and exchanged his photos of old cars he loved . He was a plasterer and carried his tools . He helped me as I had to change a couple of times to avoid going around the houses .

Lovely family of Daniel , Dinus and Celeste (13 years old ) . From the delta Tigre just outside Buenos Aires . Gave me Lot of information about Argentina and Spanish . Friends .

Fernanda - 30 years old. The leader .

Cin - 27 years old . Travelled here from Cordoba . A doctor for emergency accidents .

Daniel - 50 years - programmer of apps for Dutch company

Dina - 48 years old - web designer.

Celeste - 13 years old . End of the two month winter break from school . Starts again next Monday .

They live in the delta just north of Bs As. House is on stilts and travel by boat between their houses .

The other two in our group Cin from Cordoba and leader Fernanda (Bariolche).

My first Welsh speaker at the tourist information office in Trevellin. Nihiara who had a welsh teacher Wyn Morgan atvLlandovery College . Her teacher as well was Gretel Jones whose mother Nia Jones lived in Ammanford .

Look at the mate setup .

Reached San Martín after 230 km through the Lake District of Patagonia .

Got talking to Carys and Dafydd on a 3 week tour . They have rented a car and are off next to Mendoza having Bond from BA and San Martín . From the gogledd but we had a Welsh . They are not going down south .

These are the Welsh at Puerto Madryn just after the dance lesson . Ángeles on the right became my guide for a couple of days took me to Tango and A music Any de Sousa Joao is the dance teacher and put in a lot of effort to secure the centre future .,

Lene from Norway was the only other English speaker on the tour to Colonia in Uruguay. So after the walking tour we spent the rest of the day sight seeing in Colomia . She was a dancer having lived in several countries London and South Africa.

Now in Buenos Aires for a month learning tango but got bored and went to Santiago chile by bus for 5 days .

Ricardo Evans - another Welsh speaker who interviewed me for radio Chubut . Also met Marcia Lloyd Jones . Ricardo learned Welsh in Gaiman and is a geography lecturer at the university. He also helps out as an adviser between people and the authorities. Tells me a lot about things to do in Gaiman including the Welsh Setvicd on Sunday .

At 1530 today , 1830 uk time . I’m on the radio . News in spanish and some welsh songs .

www.radiochubut.com

Wanted to show me how tortatas fritas were made . This is just outside our campsite. All food home cooked. Including bread .

Arturo watched the Boca game with me at a cafe in Buenos Aires . Football unites.?

Well I guess we are both tourists and meeting for the second time . Both from Buenos Aires . Milena ( magnifica) y monica ( solitaria).

My Ecuadorean friends on the boat tontinas sight seeing .

This was Taid (grandfather) Morgan . His cafe had the Ty Bach that I was in desperate need of . Proud of his welsh ancestry .

My taxi driver from Trevellin to the Mollinos . Nacho same name as one of my students at Almunecar.

Diego - 64 years old . Been working 30 years in tourism . Bus tours as a photographer. Now support driver for Fernanda .

Good chats re Malvinas , the views of Argentinaians re Saes. Luckily I was Galés.

See that flag , it’s the flag when the welsh arrived in Puerto Madryn the put the dragon in centre of flag . Lorena in the tourist office in Gaiman

A coincidence , 4 days after I left the cycling group I met Fernanda again in Villa de la Angostura. She was leading another group to San Martín and i was travelling south to Esquel. Nice .

These are the teachers at ysgol y cwm in Trevellin. Teaching welsh to 150 students . Ivan showed my around and I also met

https://ysgolycwm.com/index.html#

How cool were these guys ? They arrived in their truck , strode in the supermarket , got the beers and left .

So in Bariolche took some selfies of people I met .

Rodrigo and Jorge from the North of Argentina on a two week backpacking and hiking in Patagonia . They the same as me see Bariolche so expensive ( more so than Buenos Aires) . They will travel by bus and hostels . If Rodrigo can find work he would certainly stay in Bariolche. He learnt English when he studied to become a teacher but didn’t finish his course as teaching wasn’t from him . I kept quiet . Nice guys who I bumped into again while they were eating a hot dog (rancha in Spanish )

This is me having Welsh tea and cake in Casa Te in Trevellin. Well you just have to .

I can’t remembered his name but he insisted speaking English to me . He’s a construction worker and will return to Ireland in the summer . He liked telling me that the girls liked his colour and accent .

Valentina Fulco , eight and half years old took a liking to me at the Welsh centre in Puerto Madryn .

Then I’m the bus station I met Veronica .

She’s a singer in a blues band and can be seen on Spotify under El Alambique. Also on YouTube . Unfortunately not performing in Bariloche until March 26th . She gave me a tip to visit lake guitierez to the south using bus 70.

https://youtu.be/qmdL_qdGXnI

Alfredo was my companion on el Tronchita “Con gobernantes Corruptos malos...”

These two Gwenaël and Faye from Glanamman and Amnanford I met on La Tronchita train . Welsh speakers .

Not many wandered to my next little place . Cartef Nain . It was hidden away some tracks . The Welsh signs were there . I didn’t know if I should be wandering around but this lady (Clery Evans) came towards me who turned out to be , the granddaughter of John Daniel Evans who built the flour mill in Trevellin in 1918.

https://www.patagonia-argentina.com/en/cartreftaid-museum/

Met Andy and Marie . He’s a Jaguar engineer who met Marie in Harlech on her teaching assignment. From Wrexham . Now a maintenance man here .

Daniel , great support on the cycle .

Ángeles was my tour guide well friend really as she wanted to show me around Puerto Madryn . Nice to connect and see the local places Tango , pub music .

The ticket being checked by yet another person but I think this time to recreate the atmosphere of days gone by .

If Lene from Norway can pose then so can I in Colonia Uruguay.

Sharing mate with friends.

Dog on a bike

Everyone’s tired on the long bus journeys.

One of my group described the Gauchito Gill story. I thought it was just a statue of a gaucho . But a lot more .

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauchito_Gil

Also need to read about difunta Correa.

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difunta_Correa

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauchito_Gil

Butch Cassidy visited the Racing Club hotel in Trelew .

Another came to join me at my table . Te gusta Liverpool o Manchester . Nada me gusta fútbol. A short exchange of about 5 minutes in Spanish and then we chatted about our lives here .

Nice to have an English conversation again, only two watching fútbol . The rest were Argentina families .

Great result for Liverpool.

Andy was from York , a Liverpool supporter,47 year old who just sold his pub business after 18 years . Basically had been in Argentina for 5 months . El Calafate was his starting point after Bs As. Glaciers , working in hostel , volunteering in farm but started off with 90% English being spoken .

I can’t believe this happened . Walking out of the bus terminal in Trelew I walked straight into a glass panel . It was clear I didn’t know there was a panel there . Ouch I had a yellow bruise a few days later .

These are people on well used buses in Buenos Aires

My cycling group crossing the Nahuei Huapi lake in Bariolche

We coincidentally were on the same bus twice . As Carlina was local and Her home was en route so she showed me the route to the lake from Villa de Angostura.

This was our driver to see punta tomba where all the penguins were . Pedro . Everybody happy

Cycling group

Back packing in your 70s !!!!!

Lots of police around and willing to pose . Not an expert but guns look real to me .

Cycling group - Daniel

This was Luned González ‘s son Fabio González who runs the museum in Gaiman . Luned who we met at church is very famous in the area . Strong Welsh and seems to be the Queen around here .

This is Silvia Williams who met me to show me around the church and community buildings in Esquel . Silvia spoke with so much pride about Wales , being Welsh and I felt she was going to cry all the time .

A long journey required an eye mask but everyone’s tired .

At the football match at Villla de la Angostura. Again cool guys

Had good chat with Edward bikes and Patagonia.

Yolanda ( pronounced sholanda) fed me for 3 days . Lovely people . And my first taste of Torta Galesa

See the sign in the window

Sharing mate on the beach

Jennifer davies - the welsh are everywhere . This is the Warden at Puerto Tomba ( penguins ) 80 km from Trelew but she was proud tell me of her grandparents ( look at her name ) . Doesn’t speak welsh .

Lovely group on my tour . A couple from Cordoba ( cardiologist and hotel owner ). And Emily the guide who helped me in Puerto Madryn to get refund on the Valdés peninsula cancelled trip .