well guys this is Welsh town number three for us we sure are on a roll we're
not even Welsh I know why are these people gonna have
we're gonna have another one to visit next week - oh yeah poor San but yeah
this place is probably the most remote of them all the Dolavon Dolavon or in
Spanish Dolavon eleven um yeah it's even smaller than Gaiman yep we're
seeing lots of like red brick buildings they have these water mills along the
river so yeah we're very keen to check it out
gonna be a fun day another day trip we're just gonna walk around grab a
little bite to eat and see what kind of adventures we can find in this small
town Dolavon is a small town in the province of Chubut and it's name
translates to meadow on the river the town was officially founded in 1919 and
though various European nationality settled the area the majority were the
descendants of the first Welsh settlers who arrived in 1865 since we were
already on a roll visiting Welsh towns across Patagonia we decided to check
this one out as well okay so we just finished visiting the info centre in Dolavon and
got some ideas of what we can do around town today we did learn that most
restaurants are not open on a Monday or a Tuesday
today's a Monday so the restaurants we had plotted won't be an option today but
she told us about a berry de in a camping site that's a pretty cool spot
for food so that's where we're headed next
lunchtime so we are walking to the camping site it was just three blocks
away not too too far small little town we are so ready for food well guys we
made it to sabores the Nevada flavors of the valley it's the only restaurant
available we're not gonna be sampling any of the flavors because it's close
no sign of activity inside even can look into the kitchen yeah I mean the quest
for food continues we're not gonna give up we will find somewhere we will find
something I mean we saw a bar maybe like the bar we'll have a little snack yeah I
mean we're gonna grab a bite the idea really is to show the town of Dolavon so we got
needed a little bit of food in us and then life in Ruston is and then we'll
get going with the town town to her we walked up down and around and eventually
stumble upon this little eatery it was a local spot with mainly fast food on the
menu but at this point we weren't being choosy all right guys we found a place
that's open actual on glass and we got empanadas we've got ham and cheese baked
and grown beef fried you haven't had fried infant us in a while some fries
yeah and this place also just pizzas and other things but we've been having a lot
of petroleum so we're like well after that cheese a bit good so juicy inside
the fried ones are always with the taste
going on awesome super happy to found a place
all right time to try the ham and cheese once these are the what the hell horn oh
the big ones I don't know no that's
loaded with cheese look at that cheese bubbles I press down on it they're so
cute it is their specialty prefer today is more of a quick fast foodie meal yeah
all the restaurants the nice thing about this too is that it gives us more time
to see the town instead of spending spending the day having lunch
man those empanadas were good rides are tasty to you but there's some of the
best empanadas we've had on a trip so far they've been that good ingredients
yum yum hey bad well let me Oh certainly hit the spot it was so cheap - how much
like four dollars and seventy five cents so we got four empanadas fries and a
soda water absolutely go that's amazing and the quality was so good so if you
guys are wandering in town and you're looking for a place for it a good quick
bite pop into there yeah it's called
lightning bolt the living bolt there you go
we are going to stop and admire the water wheels yes for your viewing
pleasure they're all along this walkway along the water where there's water
there's water water there's a water wheel let's see how they work
you want to say hello don't you after a quick lunch we walked back to the
tourist office in Dolavon where we had been told there's a small museum with an exhibit
about the old railway station but guess what this is Argentina so it was already
siesta time and the place was closed for the afternoon we really should know
better by now so it was back to random wandering
across town got a cool little Park here for children with dinosaurs and all
sorts of prehistoric creatures like a mammoth lots of dinosaur bones have been
found here in Patagonia there's a big dinosaur museum in Vallejo so it kind of
makes sense to be seeing lots of dinos with a bat friendly manner
so we've been wandering around for a bit what have you learned about the town so
far all right so this town's claim to fame is its mill it's flour mill which
was the first one to be built in the area and the mill was in operation until
1940 and now it's a museum and restaurant well let's be open on a
Monday thank you thank you but we're gonna walk on over there and see so this
is the restaurant we already knew the restaurant who would be closed but we
were hoping maybe the mill and the museum would be open that is not the
case we'll make use of our zoom lenses and give you guys a close-up a peek in
through the gate behind
we are now waiting for the town's museums to open one thing we didn't
realize is that museum also closes for siesta time so we decided to go have
lunch and now that the lunch hour is over a lot of places have shut down till
4 or 5 o'clock what do we do we do not know what to do
so just walking around town we've friended some dogs I mean this isn't a
very big town to begin with so we retrace their steps over and over again
at one point we even walked into a little corner store to see if they had
any suggestions for too long tourists they gave us directions to Cafe and
Bakery but guess what that too was closed and that is exactly how we ended
up hanging out at a gas station yes a gas station we are at a gas station
riveting stuff guys it's the really the only thing that's open so we we followed
a couple leads to some cafes that were suggested as potentially open we either
couldn't find them or they were closed and there's a couple of bakeries that
may open again it like 4:35 but around that time we'll probably be at the
Museum and maybe thinking about heading back into town integer blue so this is
kind of turning into the non tourist guide to the city where we just show you
what what it's like on a day one not much is open not much is happening but
we've in the gas station we did find some really refreshing drinks - OH - OH
which is a citrus jink and this one which we liked even more is called
passive in Los Toros and it is a street food flavor definitely mellow and we
also picked up some alfajores so yeah brighten our day santoshi and neither
playable longer nor the meringue time yeah and apparently there's a triplet
three layers simple layers that's the nice looking alpha horn look
at the layers here's the dulce de leche I can't brain anyone's day know what
does improve my mood considerably sugar and a cold drink sugar in a cold drink
and hopefully a museum in about 15 or 20 minutes we are back to see the museum
hopefully it says they open at 4:00 and it's 4:15 and there's no one here we'll
wait a bit see what happens maybe a minute hopefully we can still salvage
our sightseeing yeah not the dogs are following us again we picked up a few
more strays along the way yeah hey guys
walking down the street our new squad in this pod I'm so sad to leave these guys
yeah I hopefully something opens up and we can we can buy some dog food and buy
food they said I would buy one place might be open so that's coming up
operation feed the pups was not a success we went to a butcher closed two
markets closed at this point we decided there really wasn't anything left for us
to do in doll oven it was time to leave so we went to the bus stop and waited
for a bus to appear rolling watching this people Monday and Tuesday's are not
the best days for tourism yeah especially in this town apparently the
the tourism office was open in the morning we popped in yeah we were told
that almost all the restaurants and things were closed today and tomorrow so
keep that in mind if you're visiting Wednesday to Sunday is your best bet the
other thing we learned too was that like in all fairness we did do some research
before coming here like we did try to check see if things are open there
wasn't a lot of online information yes because all the places I had plotted on
my google maps I checked to see if they had ours or like a website or any type
of business information and it was all blank like you basically just had the
name of the restaurant yeah a little pin and that's what we were going off of
when we showed up so we've had a few ideas of where we wanted to go yeah no
clue that it would all fail today but but to recap I think we had a fun time
walking around the city yeah we met some very friendly dogs who know who I like
company we have amazing empanadas they weren't just nice like they were there
were some of the best we've had what else the price was good we didn't end up
spending much money at all here but a nice option for the nice alpha whore we
got to see some kind of interesting gas station we got to see some interesting
buildings who walk through your campsite we saw a few like restaurant so that
would probably be nice when they're open but um yeah and we have a puppy coming
over this is my other buddy say hello hello to the world
he's one of the five dogs we met today he's very nice so this is what a travel
day it looks like when when nothing goes right yeah it would have been so easy
for us just to like not publish this video and to never be up on our channel
but we thought we'd keep it anyways and just show you what like a non touristy
day looks like kind of a failed mission but you see it's just at the same time
I'm glad we came I had a yeah yeah I'm just I am a little disappointed because
I was excited to show you guys the mill the first flour mill / water mill just
show you the restaurant because they take the mill they take the flour from
that mill and they have a local restaurant yeah like it would have been
such a cool experience also think because like there's not a
ton of online information maybe a town like this it wouldn't be a horrible idea
if like somehow the businesses came together and maybe on a rotational basis
some places actually stayed open on Mondays and Tuesdays you had once a
month or something I don't know just so like in situations like thing to do it's
like today there's nothing to do like we've how many times have we crisscross
the town today Oh too many we've actually walked we've walked this town
more thoroughly than we have giulio is where we're spending five nights yeah so
I mean we really did try our best but hopefully you guys enjoyed the visual of
what we were able to show you and if you do come some of the things that we
mentioned that would be open say Wednesday to Sunday give it you know
check them out see if they're open try some of the restaurants check out some
of the other attractions and yeah this is more of just this is more of a town
to walk in anyway so yeah I really don't have anything much more to say we'll see
you in the next episode actually tomorrow we're going back to Gaiman you
have a day we have a day to kill while we're our bus doesn't leave until 9 p.m.
we're checking out 11:00 in the morning so hopefully we'll be able to store our
bags come back to Trelew we're gonna farm tea yeah that that that will that
will be open for sure so we'll see you guys tomorrow