EL BOLSON
30TH - 5TH JANUARY 2007
We arrived without a hitch at El Bolson and took a taxi to our cabana. To our surprise the cabana was even better than we dreamed it would be. There were only 3 cabanas in the block and were situated in the garden of the owners house. The cabana swere all very wooden with big huge windows which made for a very light inside. This place was even better than the last one and to Rob’s utter delight it had an oven!We headed into town and checked the place out. We were amused to see the El Bolson non nuclear city sign! Now we’re all for that but really its not a city! The central area around the small lake was very pleasant and the town in general was very picturesque. It was surrounded by impressive looking mountains and again it had a Swiss style feel to it. After the initial checking out of the town the next thing do was check out the helados (ice cream)
shop! Argentina has cracking helados and El Bolson is one of the specialist areas - yum! The helados lived up to its reputation and we figured it wouldn’t be the last time we visited this particular shop! Later on we enjoyed another bottle of delicious wine and chilled out in our lovely cabana.
The next morning was New Year’s Eve - wow it was almost the end of another outstanding year. While Rob headed to the supermarcado I stayed at home and plodded on with photos! Once Rob returned with an alarming amount of shopping bags and he enthusiastically showed me everything he’d bought and told me that he was going to try his hand at empanada making - the Argentines version of pastys! You can buy sheets of pre-made pastry so Rob was going to have a field day making up various empanada concoctions!
The next morning was New Year’s Eve - wow it was almost the end of another outstanding year. While Rob headed to the supermarcado I stayed at home and plodded on with photos! Once Rob returned with an alarming amount of shopping bags and he enthusiastically showed me everything he’d bought and told me that he was going to try his hand at empanada making - the Argentines version of pastys! You can buy sheets of pre-made pastry so Rob was going to have a field day making up various empanada concoctions!