The Artisan Market

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday there is a renowned handicraft market in El Bolsón, it runs from 11 to 16-18 so Dave and I had decided to get up in time to get there when it opens, in fact we hadn't imagined that we wouldn't be awake for it, but true enough we woke up at 12 o'clock... I guess we were just that tired. But we went to the market, and while some of the stuff was the nice normal stuff (leather works, wooden clocks etc.), there was some cool things I hadn't seen before, such as a man who took coins, and ended up with whatever the motive on the coin was and the outer rim, and then turned it into a necklace, it was really very nice. A lot of nice food was sold, different wooden toys and generally things that would fit in with the hippie theme of the town.

After the market I sat down and wrote in my diary, over these past days I had gotten really far behind, and the park the market is in is really nice and big, and what´s more, the music being played (generally acoustic guitar) is a very nice background sound

For dinner I was tired of always eating at restaurants (and paying for it), so I bought some potatoes and 2 nice big chorizo sausages, with which I made mashed potatoes with sausages. While eating I talked to Lucia who invited me to meet her in Buenos Aires, where she would show me the city from her perspective, and after all she is studying tourism, so why not.

I read in my book for a long time and finally went to bed, the following day Dave and I were going to hike in the mountains west of El Bolsón. The plan was to camp up at a refugio, and then go down again the next day. And for that we had to get up at 6.30, which is why I went early to bed.