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well get a morning good morning guys and welcome to Gaiman another Welsh
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community here in Patagonia Argentina we just arrived took the bus over from Trelew scenic journey and it
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took a little bit longer than we had anticipated to yeah we thought I was
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gonna be like 15 minutes but it was like I was about 45 yeah but it was so cool
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we went through some really rural areas we saw farmland cycling this is
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beautiful Sun was a fantastic little ride just to get here and now we have
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arrived in the center of town in Gaiman and well got a busy day ahead of us we're
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planning to do a little walk a little historic walk around town have afternoon
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tea a Welsh afternoon tea a Welsh afternoon tea maybe we can find a pub for lunch I'm feeling hungry
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at the moment it's surprise that's today's plan just to learn a bit more about the
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Welsh settlers yeah here and let's go check it out up let's go check it out
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we are now walking up to mirador Gaiman which is a little look at points so we can get a lay of the land like
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camera lens is looking a bit dusty here it is bit of a dusty town this is my new
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puppy friend puppy friend as we look as we walk along the river we continued our
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walk through town and ended up along the banks of the Chubut River this river
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right here played a crucial role in the development of Gaiman as it allowed the
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Welsh settlers to create irrigation canals to send water to their farms
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all right since we've just arrived in town let's talk about transportation
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because getting to Gaiman is a little bit different in terms of buying a bus
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ticket so we came from Trelew and we had to get this card where you can load
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money the card was 85 pesos and they won't take it back at the end it's yours
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to keep you have to buy it yeah so just over two US dollars a card and then for
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the journey itself it was 45 pesos per person yeah and we were able to load our
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journeys like coming and then going back so 90 total and it's a nice scenic road
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if you there's two different roads right there are two roads yes that's the other
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thing I wanted to mention if you want the scenic route you need to get on the
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bus that follows Route seven okay that's the idea so ask the bus driver that yeah
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and the company is 28 de Julio this is exactly what the bus looks like green
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and yellow the journey itself was 45 minutes and I'm really glad that we
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decided to take the scenic road here yeah we went through some really nice
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areas yeah and the buses are pretty frequent I think it's about once every
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hours yeah the schedules aren't really posted
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anywhere so on the way back the guy told us to stand at the bus stop we come by
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once every hour so I guess we'll do that guys we've found the pub it's got a
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dragon got a mean it's Welsh that's how we choose our food it's right in the
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center of town so this is very convenient
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the food has arrived we ended up getting the sorrentinos Walia sorentino's are
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kind of like round ravioli they're big stuffed with goodies have
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pumpkin and we have basil they're in a leek sauce with bits of almonds on top
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and it smells so good and there's so much cheese let's not forget the cheese
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the pumpkin is so sweet and smooth and creamy this is just delightful like they
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don't have a lot of Welsh dishes on the menu this one has a Welsh / good huh I
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know Sammis dish yeah I guess I went with
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pumpkin soup it already had a bit of melted cheese in there look add Simba
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some additional so look at this look at that so just gonna stir that around let
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the cheese melt what's still delicious it's got like an intense pumpkin flavor
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it's creamy it's a little bit sweet a little salty - yeah it's a perfect kind
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of soup for like a full day you like the perfect winter soup they've been walking
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around for a little bit we've built up an appetite yeah well it's not quite tea
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time here does it happen till 2:00 so we're having
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a little little bite of lunch and this is perfect
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yeah and we're sharing a main and an appetizer because we don't want to get
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the phone we don't want to get stuffed cake it's another we're not drinking
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wine either we don't we wouldn't want to get sleepy yeah it was a lot to do today
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it's just as kind of the beginning of our outing and this is just a perfect
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perfect little meal to have before we we check out more of the town in Gaiman
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alright guys we are now walking into a deep dark tunnel
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dusty do super dusty like there are clouds of dust blowing our way this is
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part of federal Grand Central to boot so the railway line for central Chubut
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and it was built in the year nineteen fourteen because the locals refused to
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allow the train to run through the town I guess they didn't want to ruin the
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peaceful vibe of it so they had to dig this tunnel through the mountain right
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now we can walk through a three hundred meter stretch of it do that let's go do
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it
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well we walk the length of the tunnel kind of creepy one
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you know you're the only two people here and it's a curved tunnel so you don't
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know what's around the bend but at the very end they're playing a
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little movie about the history of this railway and the train station so yeah
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it's interesting about Welsh subtitles for the movie and then you have these
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like little info points along the way that just give you information about a
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different aspect they give it really they give you information but they also
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sweet baby are these your babies baby
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our next stop was the anthropological Museum in Gaiman which is situated in a two-story
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brick home this museum pays homage to indigenous cultures and history and it
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specifically focuses on the de wenches and their relationship with the Welsh
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settlers there was a guide on site who walked us through the exhibits but just
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as a heads-up all the information is in Spanish
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we then continued to her second Museum of the day the welsh regional museum
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which is situated in the old train station and houses many of the artifacts
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that belonged to the first pioneers we had another guided visit here and
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learned all about the Eisteddfod a welsh poetry and music festival that plays an
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important role in keeping the Welsh culture alive here in Gaiman
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all right guys check in because it's been a while we have managed to visit to
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museums already we've been to the Anthropology Museum talks about that the
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the Mapuches talks about the Welsh so yeah that was really
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interesting and then from there we went to the regional Museum which also
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focuses on the Welsh their arrival here we haven't been doing a whole lot of
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talking on camera because the people who run these museums they want to talk to
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you and they want to walk through the museum with you so yeah we kind of put
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the cameras away and we're just chatting with them and learning a bit more about
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this part of Patagonia in Chubut but now we are hungry
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this time for afternoon tea our Welsh tea so we're gonna go find a place
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there's so many tea houses to choose from in this town but we'll narrow it
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alright guys so we decided on a tea house Ty Gwyn which shows tea when I believe in
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the Welsh got the name right there on the napkin so yeah it looks amazing like
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the food's already a bright bubbly one incredible spread oh yeah look at that
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on this one plate we've got the bread yeah we have white bread whole wheat
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cheese sandwiches scones and lots of butter on that bread it's not a three by
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three buttered bread very nice on the other
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got six different to choose from my friends we're not gonna be hungry today
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and the price it was 14 US dollars per person at Ty Gwyn not bad that's one of the most
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portable afternoon teas we've had when we were looking at doing one at an
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actual Wales in Cardiff I think it was may have been 50 pounds and I think we
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may have we may have been a little bit too cheap how is that very nice I'm
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already starting with a little mini cheese sandwiches the breads very light
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fluffy so good okay we have two jams but they said the big one was exceptionally
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delicious they were right I'd see a rough to read certainly haven't even
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tried the cakes never having Walsh afternoon tea was definitely one of her
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favorite experiences in town our one tip is to come very very hungry skip lunch
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because the amount of bread scones and cakes you'll be served is astounding all
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right red time yeah there's so many different things to try there were that
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we're splitting it up for the camera let's rather two different jams
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strawberry strawberry yeah I think that's what it is and what's this one
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again that one is being all the figs it is delicious at a point of you are
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really excited it looks like they're bringing us more hot to you more about
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team which is gracias gracias you can you cozy got a lovely tea cozies
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let's try that fig jam mmm really good both the jams have such different
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flavors it's nice to alternate between the two different flavors I don't use
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one I go with the fake just because it's so unique so tasty now cakes there's six
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very happy yeah okay so this one we said it's called torta negra in Spanish which
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would mean a black cake it's a Welsh recipe and it may look like chocolate
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but apparently it's me with sugar okay sir it looks like it might have reasons
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to very nice this is my first time having a cake like this mm-hmm
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good caramelized sugar and those have raisins and walnuts good sir and a nice
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surprise something new and you've got more tea more I do have more let's
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continue hello my friend come to me this one they said is a cream pie can't
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say I've ever had clean pie before
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the best way I can describe the cream is like wanted clean what you would put on
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the scone right but it's like already in the pie so the only thing and I can make
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this better scrubbing a little bit of jam so then
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you've got like an actual scone because you've got like the layer of dough the
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pie crust the cream the jam it's like you got it all going in a bite you got
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it all perfection great discover here you go one where to go don't you it just
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doesn't end one more who her newest at the team also the music are they playing
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Walsh music I don't understand what but I can't understand this language it's
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not English it's not Spanish next hello hello hello mr. big slice of cake over
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there look at all that cream in the middle in Spanish this is called
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bizcocho a low which I can best describe it's kind of like a sponge cake it's a
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vanilla sponge cake it's got cream the raspberries and like
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sugar glaze over it I usually catch my breath taking sugar
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is tiring so far the quality has been good on everything right
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no duds no dad I love this it's like somewhere between a glaze and icing and
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fondant good stuff huh and I like the tartness of the raspberries that I mean
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you only tried three there's another three more types of keys to go okay I'll
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take care of those for us I'm gonna break well well
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friends I'm getting a little sleepy over here I'm real ton ding my belly's
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protruding whatever such good food we have to finish this must go on show must
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go on okay let's try this this looks so good
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cut it like that it looks like a crumble
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hmm oh my gosh strawberry crumble the crumble on top has additional sugar lots
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of jams really sweet this may be the sweetest thing we've tried so far it's
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really tasty it's also tart a bit this doesn't have to be your dinner like
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there's no way we can possibly use not just dinner I don't even think I'm gonna
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have a breakfast at fault what's his neck so looks like we've got like an
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apple pie hi guys fine did not skip out on that layer of alcohol in the middle
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such a nice thick layer of apples added some cinnamon across I guess you would
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call it is super thin so you're getting a lot of fruit
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not too much crust which is the way I prefer delicious white and there's one
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more last but not least we have the brightest brightest one yeah this is
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this kind of has a gelatin jello we have a layer of cream in the middle and a
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thicker crust at the bottom with raspberries raspberries cream and jello
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so smooth with the jello you're right everything has been so delicious here
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it's just it's starting to get full I'm loving it though you come to Gaiman it
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is the thing to do oh and I should mention that almost all
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the tea houses don't open until 2:00 the hours of 2:00 to 7:00 or 2:30 some even
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at 2:30 that's right all right now that we've had a taste of everything can you
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choose a favorite out of all the cakes in prize my gosh they're all so good
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there was really nothing that was a disappointment but I'd say my favorite
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if I had to choose one is right down here apple pie I think the reason I like
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this so much is just a copious amount of apples yeah leave the year I think we
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can guess mine it was the cream pie scone in pie formed with clotted cream
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right here right here two years I like you so guys we're just gonna nibble away
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see if we cannot dude we can finish at all I think we can we're getting close
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well we didn't quite finish everything but we enjoyed the cake so much that we
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got them packed up to go and let me tell you they made a wonderful breakfast the
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following morning from there we visited one final attraction the first house in
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Guymon here we had a guide who was able to give us a tour in English we learned
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that the first house in town was built by David Roberts and his wife Jemima
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Jones in 1874 it was a stone and mud construction that originally had a straw
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roof inside they had furniture paintings and household items that would have
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belonged to this pioneer family
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well well well guys that is a day trip spent the whole day in guys what a day
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trip we did a little bit of hiking a little bit of self-exploration three
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museums me the MT a we had lunch - at lunch we had cakes I don't think we've
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packed that much into a day trip in a long time I was that was awesome just
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loved the chill vibe of this place we liked it so much we plan to come again
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tomorrow more tea visit a farm so there's a farm
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I really want to see our guide on one of our tours in Sedona this was telling us
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about this place where you can tour the farm they sell fresh produce jams so
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we're just really curious we're gonna go check it out yeah and yeah this is an
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amazing day the museums we visited three museums and learned so much about the
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history of the Welsh here that's a wench's and just fascinating yeah I feel
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like this place is such an underrated gem and if you guys are travelling
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around here in Philly it's definitely worth coming out so Gaiman to Ty Gwyn come spend a
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day or it come spend the night if you want that way you can have more time
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here yep yeah we're just waiting for a bus to arrive but to the new we go so
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we'll see you guys
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you