We wake this morning and having had breakfast go to check out and find a map to indicate our exit from Viedma. How did that get there, who knows we are here? We later find out that Oscar phoned our friendly helper having his number pop up on his phone, he informed him which hotel we were staying in. Oscar then asked a friend to go to the hotel and leave a street map, wow!
Didn’t do us any good as within 3 miles, having passed football pitches with NO grass on at all, we are off road again. Another 5 miles and we decide enough is enough and turn around, having looked at the map since then boy are we glad we did. We found the correct road and got there in no time, the co-ordinates took us to a lighthouse, perhaps not. We went back and asked a policeman who called his colleagues with a police car and gave us a police escort to where he thought it was, no bikes here so he asked some others on a Gold Wing but they say they are another 30k away. The policeman tried to phone Oscar but no service on his phone. We thanked him for his efforts and went along the sea front. A couple of families turn up and we have a photo shoot putting their children on our bikes but they speak less English than we do Spanish. A pickup stopped and the Lady had lived in Cambridge for a while so had good English but was unable to help, however her partner was keen to do something and took Oscar’s number from us and made contact. He then asked us to follow him and led us to where our group of bikers were, just how helpful can you be!!
We met the group, 4 Germans, 1 Austrian, 3 Canadians, 1 New Zealander and about 4 Argentineans, and then went to the campsite which was where the Police had taken us in the first place.
Quite a few of these guys are headed for Ushuaia for Christmas, so if we thought this was going to be lonely it would seem we are going to have plenty of company. We pitch our tents and all have dinner in the neighbouring hotel.
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