May 2, 2023 Marc

Day 4 Friday We agreed that for the next few days we’d have a spot of R&R, so on Friday morning we bought freshly baked medialunas and checked the bikes over while enjoying breakfast. With that done, we took a leisurely ride along the Madryn seafront where we visited a monument to the Welsh colonists, another commemorating the fallen of the Falklands/Malvinas war and then continued along the coast to an old lighthouse overlooking Playa Paraná, where there is the wreck of the fishing trawler, Folías – we would return there later for further investigation. On leaving the hostel that…

July 18, 2021 Marc

From April 2 2012 Which if you don’t know by now is the 30th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands. Or as the Argentines would have it; the 30th anniversary of their ‘legitimate’ retaking of their territory from the English pirates. (Note, that anyone who is from UK is simply English) The propaganda machine has now gone into full swing in Buenos Aires, with the President fomenting ‘Malvinas’ emotion with every sinew of her body. Malvinas Day was first introduced in 2001. It replaced the June 10th “Sovereignty over Malvinas Islands” Day, which until then had commemorated…