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