We dropped the tickets off at home and then headed off to Madryn on the 12 o�clock bus, getting there at 1.

The first thing we did was to go to the oceanography museum which I had visited a few weeks earlier, and where I convinced the staff to complete my questionnaire while Emma and I walked around.

We tried to go to the modern art museum but that was closed for lunch, so after Emma bought a wallet for Jason we went for lunch in a cafe on 25 de Mayo, me having a small pizza.

After that, we went to the tourist information centre and had another chat about my work, before heading up to the Welsh Information Centre and the Ecocentro.

That was the plan, anyway, although having walked there twice before, I wasn�t planning on doing it a third time, especially in the 25 C heat along the seafront.

First plan was to get a taxi, but we couldn�t find one, so we ended up just standing on the corner of a street and waving at the bus when it approached. Not the best tactic, but we got on and got there in one piece.

Emma walked round the museum while I talked to the curator, who is also organising the Foro on Welsh Patagonian Research in Madryn in a few weeks.

After that, we went down to the caves where the welsh first landed and then along to the Ecocentro, which is highly publicised around Patagonia.

Highly publicised, but lacking in interest compared to the other two museums which we visited. While $2 gets you a house packed with curiousites in the oceanography museum and $3 gets you the Welsh museum, the Ecocentro costs $15 for a big, airy building. It�s all about the experience, maaan. Unfortunately, having already been out and seen the whales and the penguins, we have the experience and trying to synthesise it in that way ain�t gonna work!

Rushing back into town, we just about caught the 7:30 bus back to Trelew, having been back to the tourist office for some questionnaires, and walked swiftly along to Karen�s house for tea.

It was just Karen and Nacho, Emma and me in the house, so we ordered some pastas in from Casa de Juan and sat down and had a long chat about cats, McDonalds, shopping centres and the usual stuff.

Finished tea and went home tired, going to the internet cafe first to check our mail (as usual!) and then home to try and pack as much as I could and ensure that I had a good night�s sleep before flying to Buenos Aires in the morning.