Trelew

Trelew, which means Town of Lew is a cool city. There isn’t much to do but it’s ok. The best places are near the city like Gaiman, Puerto Madryn and Puerto Piramides.

I have passed through Trelew twice – once in 1998, and again in 2007. Both stopovers were necessary, as Trelew is a bus/airline hub in eastern Argentine Patagonia – providing connections for travelers headed from the Andes mountains to Buenos Aires.

Although Trelew is a rather unremarkable Argentine city, there is something comforting about it…perhaps there is a bit of a ‘time warp’ factor. Both times I passed through, I felt as though I had landed at some kind of miniature spacetime vortex.

When I was there with my husband in 2007, we stayed at the Hotel Libertador, which amplified the feeling of time running backwards. Our immaculate room was done up VERY NEATLY in the hues of pea-green that were all the rage in 1975…

So it’s no wonder that, after an interesting visit to the fantasticMEF archaeological museum, a GREAT afternoon tea service at Ty Te Caerdydd in nearby Gaiman (a real Welsh teahouse that Lady Diana once visited), and a wonderfully smooth bottle of Argentine Malbec, we overslept and missed our flight to Buenos Aires. : /

Luckily, plenty of buses serve the route…although they DO take almost a day to reach their destination!!!