It’s always the same around this time of year. Easter has arrived in Argentina and of course the rest of the world and its holiday’s time. In England that means dropping a few easter eggs of at various relations houses and then heading of on an Easy Jet airliner as fast as one can to a sunny beach and few days break as far away from family as possible! I am sure we love our families as much as Argentines love theirs but we show it in different ways I guess. There is no doubt about it Easter here means much than picking up a few easter eggs and a quick look a the Ryanair flight schedule to see how far you can get from the easter egg recipients - only joking but for sure Easter here is somewhat different. It’s almost like Christmas. It’s a time for families to get together and enjoy well being a family. What usually happens is the usual English chaos of an English Easter -people hitting the road to get to where ever the are going and creating chaos. The routine is that they take a few days of escape to place like La Margarita to rest and relax. Then on the Saturday there is a mad dash back home so that people can be with their families on Easter Sunday. This year is has been no different and as I sit writing this blog looking at the lovely view on La Margarita we have an estancia full of Argentines (sprinkled with some guests from England and Canada) enjoying this lovely estancia doing things like horse riding , milking cows , riding , eating a great asado and generally enjoying themselves. Both the main house and the self-catering units are full and from the comments of our guests they seem to be having a great time. But on Saturday after the midday asado all of our Argentine guests, after arriving on Wednesday, are leaving and heading back home to be with their families for the big family get together on Easter Sunday – how lovely. It’s when this happens I feel a bit home sick but then of course, I remember if I was in England at Easter my family would be somewhere else life eh!
I hope you who are reading this are having or had a great Easter. I personally want to bloggy thank our team here on La Margarita Susana , Raquel, Daniela , Leti , Lalo , Poppy, Ilona and of course Adriana in our BA office for making it go to so smoothly and making La Margarita a great place to be for Easter - you really are a great team and I am lucky to have you working here – a big big thank you for making my life easy - after all I only write the blog but they make it all happen.
This is David Cummings alias the English Gaucho off to have a walk and look at the sun go down since it’s a beautiful beautiful evening and on days like these its really easy to see why I purchased La Margarita
Hasta Pronto
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