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Saturday, november 18'th
| Nice, quiet and uncomplicated deperture from Billund to Schiphol Amsterdam. I will spend my
weekend in Amsterdam
which is more fun than Vejle. I put most of my luggage in a locker at the airport - I
don't need it for just the weekend. Take the train to Amsterdam, and the traditional
walking-around the canal-thing. Later I find my way to Edam - about 30-40 km. north of
A'dam. It's been pretty hard to find
accomodation in Amsterdam for just one night. And since I had thought of a trip to Edam I
thought - why not stay there. So I ordered via the Internet, but it turned out that the
"Tollhuis" was placed some distance away from Edam. But when I
called them, they offered to pick me up at the busstation in Edam - so no problem anyway.
The manager picked me up at 5 pm - where things were getting rough and cold - and took me
to the hotel, right beside the big lake of Ijselmeer. |
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Sunday, november 19'th
Leaving the "Tollhuis" at 10 am for Edam and on to
A'dam. Nothing special that I want to see - just take a look around this nice city.
But I change my mind, as it starts to rain, and istead go for
the Van Gogh-museum. It's infact
pretty exiting, because it's easy to get around. And the cafe is brilliant. And for once -
a museum which is not full of "sponsors".
It's almost dry for the rest of the day. So I take a long
walk around the city. In the evening it starts to rain cats and dogs so I go for Schiphol
and my KLM-plane to Buenos Aires which is
scheduled for departure 5 minuttes before midnight.
Monday, november 20'th
16 hours of flying - booooooring. And the plane is packed, so
it's hard to get some sleep.
After 12 hours we land in Sao Paulo, Brazil and stay there
for an hour. Then it's 3 hours to Buenos Aires,
before I land in the Ezaiza-airport - pretty tired.
I find a minibus for downtown which will leave in half an
hour. But there is noone else but me, that will use this bus, so instead a
mafioso-look-alike arrives in a white shirt and a black Mercedes. He doesn't understand a
word of english, but he does succeed to let me know, that since I'm the only passenger he
can just as well take me directly to my hotel. I try to tell him the name, but either he
doesn't understand or he doesn't know the Hotel Lourdes. But he's got something of it anyway, because suddenly
we stop, he goes back 10 meters - and we are right in front. He got a good tip!
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Check-in - to my room, which is very sparse - but the place
is cheap. Time to do B.A. It's hot and it's noisy. Very
noisy to say the least. Take a good walk down Avenida de Mayo, crossing Avenida 9'de julio
- in 2 steps - since there is 10 lanes in each direction - so you better take a break at
the middle. Down to Plaza de Mayo - where
"the mothers" still demonstrate once a week, because their sons disappeared
during the dictatorship-days - also know as "the dirty war". Then back to the
hotel - turn on the tv - about 60 channels to choose between. |
Tuesday, november 21'st
Up at 4 am (yes - FOUR) to get down to my taxi which is
booked for 4.30. It will take me to the small Buenos Aires airport called Aeroparque. From
their my LAPA-air leaves for Rio
Gallegos at 6 am - and you have to be there an hour early.
| Great flight in lovely weather. We make a
stopover in Trelew, which is a city I will return back to. At 11 am we land in Rio
Gallegos. I take a taxi to downtown, since there are no busses at the airport. Gets myself a 29 $ room at Hotel Paris - which is not able to live up to it's
name. The windows are broke, but the tv and the bed is ok.
Out for a little sightseeing - this is kind of like the
wild-west - and there is a heavy storm passing by - so it's pretty cold as well. Take a
walk around town - funny place - not the tourist-centre of this world.
Back to the hotel - and 2 champions-league matches on the
telly. |
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Wednesday, november 22'nd
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At this point you were supposed to head on, but
I have made a reservation at the hotel for one more night, so I stayt for one more day (I
love this argument....). In fact the plans were to go on to Puerto Nateles in Chile - but
the first bus in next saturday! - so plans are made to be changed - and I go to Punta
Arenas - also in Chile - on thursday instead. Take
one more look at Rio Gallegos - well I guess I have seen it all - but anyway - but it is a
quite relaxing day. Well I needed that, so no problem. |
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