Trevelin

We spent an afternoon in the nearby village of Trevelin, an offshoot of the Welsh colonies Gaiman and Trelew on the Atlantic coast.



This place was a proper frontier town, only the main road was concreted, and it kind of felt like a ghost town - apart from the museum and a welsh tea room where they plied us with sickly-sweet cakes and "authentic" Welsh tea. Liked the Argentina flag sat next to the Welsh dragon on the tourist info building though.



And I was pleased to see the family name quite prominent in the settlers of the village. The woman in the museum was actually the great grand-daughter of Thomas Davies, one of the original settlers in Trevelin. This is him: