Got up early and packed the rest of my stuff back into the bags that I�d brought with me all the way from Wales, and paid for my fortnight at the hotel. I had another quick go at the plastic brick, but it was dead as a dodo. Nothing doing. Gutted.

I dragged my bags down to the bus stop at the bottom of the street, just catching the 11:30 bus into town, and had to store the bigger of the bags in the luggage hold underneath. Waved goodbye to Gaiman and arrived in Trelew twenty-five minutes later.

After the hassle of just dragging the bags down the street, I decided there was no way I was going to try and walk with them from the bus station to my new room about five-ten minutes walk away, so I took a taxi down the road before hauling the bags up the steep stairs to my new room.

Even though I�d been to Trelew nearly every day for the past week, this was a new opportunity to have a wander round the city. I poked my nose into a gym which was advertising monthly membership for $20 (about four pounds) and had a chat with the owner, who turned out to be half-Welsh, and found a hypermarket only minutes from the house. Excellent!

I did the usual e-mail checking, then went back to the gym to pay my money and pretend to get fit. It�s easier to fool yourself than to actually do it, eh?!

After that, I went to the cinema to watch an Argentinian cartoon film called Patorizitu, based on a traditional childrens comic about the native Indians. The story itself was familiar, kind of like the Cities of Gold cartoon which I watched as a kid.

Afterwards, I went to buy some socks. Couldn�t find any reasonable priced socks anywhere! Ended up at �MegaShop�, which as you can guess isn�t that different from HyperValue where I managed to find some quite good quality, quite cheap socks. Fair dos.

Another trip to Norte, the hypermarket, to get some pasta and the usual extras and a quickly made meal (once I�d managed to open the sauce!) and then bed to finish off the rest of the Coupland novel and have a good night�s sleep.