olavarria

well, we arrived yesterday evening. bus trip took 5.5hrs to cover about 350km with quite a few stops. it's a real country town - no tourists here. in fact i'd say we may be the first people who dont speak spanish to stay here.

our apartment is fantastic though, it's got 2 bedrooms, a good sized lounge, a dining room table, a full sized modern kitchen and a nice bathroom. it's enormous for the two of us... iit also has wireless broadband internet, Australia is so far behind Argentina in terms of access to broadband it is just ridiculous. Telstra and the government need to get their act together.

olavarria itself, is a nice enough country town. a few nice looking cafe's and restraunts. some nice old buildings and the odd nice park. but that's about it. their is also a club with swimming pools and some other stuff that we will check out tomorrow. the weather is cooler here, so it's better for running - fantastic as i'm behind schedule getting ready for busselton.

i'm told the anaesthetists speak very little english here, so tomorrow will be interesting ...

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It's carnaval time here in olavarria. Rio it isn't, but it was bigger and more colorful than I expected.













































and more cheeky :-)