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Rio Cuarto - eine typische argentinische Stadt / a typical Argentinean town |
Heute Morgen gingen wir um 10 Uhr frühstücken, packten unsere Siebensachen und waren um 12 Uhr bereit um abzufahren. An der Reception telefonierte ich mit Franco aus Villa Maria, den ich Mitte November mit seinem Vater in Copiapó, Chile, kennengelernt hatte und die mich einen Tag zuvor gefilmt hatten als wir uns unbekannterweise an der Laguna Verde beim Ojos del Salado gekreuzt hatten. Da Villa Maria mehr oder weniger auf unserem Weg nach Buenos Aires lag, entschieden wir uns dort einen Zwischenhalt zu machen…
This morning we went for breakfast at 10 am, packed our belongings and were ready for departure at noon. At the reception I called Franco from Villa Maria, who I got to know with his father in Copiapó, Chile, mid November and who had videotaped me a day before when we crossed at the Laguna Verde close to the Ojos del Salado. As Villa Maria was more or less on our way to Buenos Aires we decided to make a stopover there…
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Franco |
Um 21 Uhr hatten wir die Strecke von über 300 km bis nach San Pedro geschafft und fuhren beim Hotel Howard Johnson (http://www.hjsanpedro.com.ar) vor, wo wir uns für 2 Nächte einquartierten. So hatten wir noch einen Ausruhetag vor uns bevor wir am Dienstag unsere Rückreisen in die Schweiz antreten werden! Eine Stunde später sassen wir draussen (immer noch schweisstreibend heiss!) im Restaurante Zeus nur einige Blocks weiter entfernt, wo wir doch tatsächlich ein richtiges Filet vom Grill serviert bekamen, das leider wie immer zu sehr durchgebraten war obschon wir ausdrücklich erklärt hatten wie wir es gerne hätten… Zum Nachtisch fanden wir auch eine Eisdiele, die unser Lieblingseis Schokolade mit Mandeln führte – mmmhhhhh!
xxxFranziska & Doris
Now we drove 140 km on a straight stretch to Villa Maria with over 40 centigrade, where we arrived at the Hotel Howard Johnson at 2:30 pm and waited for him with a fresh squeezed orange juice at the air-conditioned restaurant. Poor Franco, who has had a motorcycle accident 2 months ago and therefore appeared in cast, invited us for lunch. We declined with thanks, as we intended to drive as close to Buenos Aires as possible and look for a hotel there about, and drove on shortly after. We were lucky again, because the new highway directly to Buenos Aires had just recently opened! Just when we hit the gas we were stopped by a police control and an officer who wanted to demonstrate his might tried to fine me because I drove with parking instead of dim light… of course I didn’t put up with it and had a discussion with his superior and on this occasion claimed how dangerous it was to make such a control without a warning for drivers with around 130 km/h! They looked puzzled and let me go with all kind of good wishes.
At 9 pm we had driven a stretch of over 300 km to San Pedro and drove up to the Hotel Howard Johnson (http://www.hjsanpedro.com.ar), where we checked in for 2 nights. In this way we will have a day to relax before we will head back to Switzerland on Tuesday! An hour later we sat outside (still sweat-inducingly hot) at the Restaurante Zeus just a few blocks from the hotel and were served a real tenderloin from the barbeque, which sadly was cooked to well although we had explained explicitly how we would like it… For desert we also found an ice-cream parlour which had our favourite ice-cream chocolate with almonds – mmmhhhhh!
xxxFranziska & Doris
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