My Journey Round The World

What a day: Sunday in a Swiss Colony in Argentina… Colonia Suissa was the first Swiss settlement in Patagonia. On Wednesday & Sunday there is an arts & crafts fair and restaurants prepare a traditional mapuche food called Curanto, in which they cook the food using a hole in the earth filled with hot rocks. I couldn’t miss that!

While waiting for the bus I had a chat with 3 Argentine womans – Cristina, Nancy and Maria Isabel – going there too. The cue was so long that they called another bus to bring everybody there.
When arriving we could see how they do prepare the food: a hole in the earth filled with hot rocks where they put first
nalca or maqui leaves, and add various vegetables and even fruits such as: carrots, onion, apple, pumpkin, of course potatoes… with different types of meat and and recover all that with ash to cook it for about 2 hours. It gives such a good taste to the food! It remind me of the great dish we had in Poland few years ago, cooked by Monika’s parents to make us discover a tradional food from her region! Monika, will you give me the name again?!

Portion are normally for 2 and at that time I was on my own as my 3 Argentine mate didn’t want to try. Finaly it wasn’t too much… I ate everything, I was happy to be alone… my trousers will hate me still…

After such a good meal I bump into Alessandro – the Italian guy with whom I went to Salsa course the day before – Elisabeth – from Austria – and 2 Dutch girls who came by bike – maybe I should have join them in the morning…

While I was thinking to go back to Bariloche I came accross Cristina, Nancy and her Mum Maria Isabel with Gustavo. They offer me to join them and Gustavo – guide in the region! – drove us around the famous Circuito Chico to see the outskirts and the characteristic sites of the city with a nice break at the lovely tea-cofee shop Bellevue for a small dessert… Thank you so much for this time shared together! It was terrific!

7 Comments so far

Tu as donc mangé deux portions.. Ah non, pardon, trois!
Comment dire… Je ne suis pas étonné! Certaines choses passent, mais d’autres restent, assurément! )

Non pas 3! Une portion normalement prevu pour 2… Bien contente d’etre seule finalement Y’a des choses qui passent et qui reviennent… genre les kilos !!!

Hi Alex,
you are in Argentine now, and you know what, you travel too fast because I was just able to follow you with the German version to Bolivia and I am still in Sucre I suggest from now you move on foot or maximum by donkey. But, from what I have read with two months delay (sorry!) I notice that it is really true that travelling broadens your/our mind and understanding immensely. Have further on fun. PS: by what you all eat at every single stop could it be that by now you weigh a ton and the photos are faked? Ulli

Uf… je suis etais sans internet pour une/deux semaines et …uf tu fait ton voyage too fast, I gess.. well – I try to follow you again. Mis traducciones se atrazaron. Perdon. Saludos de Carmen

Et y en a qui diront qu’avec internet les gens ne lisent plus…et bin ceux là y connaissent pas Alex!!!! chaque étape est un roman où tu mets 3 jours à tout lire…et gare à celui ou celle qui loupe une journée!!! Continue Alex, on n’en perd pas une miette!!!!!! Bzz

Don’t worry, it’s fine! You’re lucky that I don’t have laptop as I don’t have time to say everything… It should arrive in New Zealand! Thanks a lot to both of you for your help, I’m really happy to have this blog in 4 languages and this is thanks to you!!!
And Ulli, maybe you don’t see it on pictures but I can tell you that I don’t fit in my trousers anymore…