Bruno gave the second part of his presentation, while David Williams also gave a presentation before lunch, along with Tegai Roberts and Nadine Laporte, the latter two talking about the Welsh toponomy of the region.

Instead of heading off with the others for lunch, I went on my own to distribute some questionnaires around the middle of Madryn. Makes sense - eat food, hand out qaires, a respected and respectable research technique (apparently).

Back to the conference for the second part of the day - an interesting presentation about the architecture of the Welsh monument in town, more from David Williams, a piece about the censuses of the Welsh taken in the early years of the colony, and, finally, the big paper - that of Robert Owen Jones.

ROJ, for short, is the only person working on very similar themes to myself (he wrote his own PhD on Welsh in Patagonia back in the 1970s) so his paper was the real reason for me attending, especially as it was discussing the Welsh Teaching Project here, which he heads. Interesting stuff, of course.

After that, I sort of had to leave the conference in order to pick up some questionnaires from people in town, getting a snack at the bus station and then getting the 9:30 bus back once again.

Rock legend, Charlie Garcia was playing in Trelew tonight for the first time in more than twenty years, but it was quarter to eleven by the time that I got back to town, so no chance of seeing him :(

So, same as last night - check my mail and then home to bed.