First Challenges of Cycling in Patagonia - Bike Touring Argentina - Vlog #07
We don't have any money !! No, we do a little bit, but we can't get any more money because it's the beginning of the month and no one has money so we're going to have to spend very little money the next few days and hopefully we can get it in another smaller town because there's a lot of tourists here and they're taking all of our money So, the thing is that it's not always easy to handle money while traveling. In Argentina for example, it's complicated to transfer money from abroad especially here in Patagonia where villages are scarce. But before explaining better, let's go back a little. Just like most stories in Argentina this one begins after a tasty Asado Ruby summoned a guitar and treated us to some amazing traditional music I'd like to play a Samba for our friends from ...
Italy, France and Germany Austria, not Germany !!! I'm so sorry ! And I'd like to present to you, with my Patagonian simplicity, a Chacarera a song whose words are very meaningful and should help us to think about our life and all that we have whether it's a little, nothing or a lot, if we're lucky When life shows you The wrinkles on its forehead One knows that time Comes hand in hand with death Life has moments, And it's better to take advantage of them Time passes and does not return, The past does not return and with a heavy heart we left Esquel and ventured into Patagonia Living thinking about tomorrow, Forgetting the present It's like being and not being, It's like feeling absent I discovered that in this life Being happy costs nothing That all the simple things Must be taken advantage of Okay, so back to this kind of landscape ... Okay, still pretty ... The other good news is that today we have a tailwind ... for now because we're going west at the moment but in a few kilometers we're going to have to turn south so we're going to have a pretty strong side wind. Let's see, maybe today it's our first day of the famous Patagonian wind that everyone has been telling us about ...
Another news is that after taking it easy for a couple of weeks and bathing in lakes and rivers and resting under the trees, today we have to try and do 100kms, in fact we will have to do about 100kms every day for the next few days so that's a nice change of pace ... car That one was nice Wild Camomile We made it to Tecka, 100 kilometers from Esquel, in one day and the thing is that we're still looking to withdraw some money so apparently there should be a Western Union here in the bus terminal Marco went inside and let's see if we are lucky this time ... Did you get some money? No but I have a lead ... follow me Good news, she works with Western Union there were some people in there so I didn't really want to talk a lot. They also have a lot of food so let's both go in and and see if we get lucky! So the thing is, here in Argentina, it's very expensive to withdraw money using our European cards the best option is actually to use Western Union However, as you can see in this episode, their offices don't always have enough cash so it's sometimes a bit tricky Great Success 1,642 kilometers to Ushuaia Now we feel that we are in the real Patagonia; it's desertic, we've got straight lines although not as straight as in La Pampa, and it's windy, maybe you can hear it You may think "ah it's not really nice to cycle here" but for us it's the contrary we really enjoy it, after all the bad gravel and traffic we had this is paradise Whenever we're off the saddle there's always so much to do Work online, social medias, bicycle maintenance, and many other things Are you motivated to do 130kms? Yeah, I am so motivated!!! Let's go cycling!!! Let's go cycling? Do you want to go cycling? Can you fit through there? He fits there! I feel something's coming... It's a car!
The joke is that we're finally using our selfie stick after two years, two months sorry, and I'm a bit bored so I'm having fun with it We've just been informed that the place where we will sleep tonight has just one room with two beds, it's pretty cheap and today it's our anniversary 17 years together What do you mean "17 years"? 1 7, 17 Is it not 18 ? Can you believe it? I can, it's been great! What, years? Yeah Okay ... so anyway, Aurelie told me that she really wants a room tonight I'm winking, I don't know if you can see it but I'm winking But the thing is that there's no shower ... There's no shower? Oh yeah! That's it? Yeah Okay so, six hours seven minutes and we cycled 127, 128 kilometers That's not bad It's not bad, I'm really tired though but the last three hours, half of the day, was hard Yeah So that's the place Yeah, it looks good and I think there's another cyclist here and the rain is coming in High five! Happy anniversary! Here is the place where we are staying tonight This is the common area and there's a kitchen hopefully we can cook our meal for tomorrow midday and we have our bedroom here, very simple but enough to get a little bit of comfort and sleep well and the good thing is that we have this area where we can spread all our stuff we were able to have a shower here very basic, just cold water, but that's enough, we are very happy to be able to wash after so many kilometers Ou la-la! Here is Aurelie preparing us some "Haute Cuisine Française" (Inexistant and very silly made up French name) How do you have so much energy to say stupid things? Stupid things are free! At the same time she's washing her underwear! Ah! This is the secret to great french food!? I can't mix ... You can't mix? You could not, you could not mix it? Yeah, I think I will take over the cooking while she washes her underwear ...
We were told that dinner was great here so that's where we are going now Sorry, let's just check that there's no one coming that side Check that there's no one coming the other side Let's just double check that there's no one coming that side and that there's no one coming the other side I think we're good and on top of that there are other cyclists so we are going to have dinner together Why are you shouting? because it's windy! For weeks we've been looking for Phoebe and now it looks like we see her everywhere and she's been to this place "Phoebe, England, bicycle" December, 15th It could be her! Welcome to adventures of the desert day ... 4? Something like that ... This bit is really, really flat, there's no vegetation left and today we have a headwind Wow, it's going fast, maybe 30kms/h ... I'm catching up with it Ostrich We're going down to this canyon and there's a river down there and there's also a lot of green, a lot of trees so I suppose that this is where we'll be camping Yes I'm sure we'll find a spot This incredible beauty Spoilt by humans Good night everyone Good morning Let's get ready? Marco, are you here? Marco is not available at the moment This is our kitchen, it's from the brand Trangia, it's Swedish and it's quite simple; it works with a burner in which we put alcohol, normally ethanol and this year we've upgraded it with our Italian cafetera and we have a toaster! Look at this, toasted bread! There's Aurelie ... why is she saying goodbye? Because ... look at this baby! Just look at that! So straight!!! We get an amazing roundabout just outside the town, a statue, sculpture, whatever ...
and the best thing about it is that the town is down Oh... and we're about to have some holidays We had to leave our bicycles and head for the coast in order to renew our visa We often forget how fast the world is from a car's window Here we are in Comodoro Rivadavia, we're going back to the Immigration Office Back? Are you telling me that 421adventure is once again having issues with Customs? Let's not use the word "issue" yet, we're going back because we went there this morning and they told us that it wasn't as straightforward as it might seem, they kept our passports and told us to come back at 11:30 so we're going back now, let's see what happens ... I'm shaking! To be continued Stop recording Stop recording Stop recording ... you're so stupid! Stop recording stop recording stop recording Just use the button
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