Before leaving buenos aires i visited Palermo - a fairly chic neighboorhood with huge parks - and i even found a vegetarian Indian restaurant there! Speaking of food, i heard all these things about how it would be impossible to be a vegetarian in Argentina because theres so much meat. And there is a lot of meat, but theres also a lot of pizza, pastas, and empanadas, all which can be vegetarian. Theres not a huge amount of variety -its a lot of tomato and cheese, but i think its easier to find vegetarian food in Argentina than in Canada. On [View Full Entry]

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Thursday Evening there was a tango lesson at the hostel, which was fun, although i´m no good at it. Afterwards...at 1am, which is fairly early for Buenos Aires we went out to a milonga (tango house) that the teacher recommended. It wasn´t at all touristy, in fact there wasn´t even a sign letting you know it was there. The group of us mostly tried to fade into the background and just watch, because it was the kind of place where everyone knew everyone, and i think they must have thought we wandered in lost. We all had to say, ¨sorry i [View Full Entry]

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This morning i went for breakfast - cafe con leche y medialunas (otherwise known as a latte and croissants) at a cute little cafe, and then I wandered around San Telemo (the area i´m staying in) for a while. It´s a cute neiboorhood with lots of art and antique shops - and at least one internet cafe on every block (which is useful for updating this). I got some empanadas to go for lunch and ate them in this really big park. They were caprese empanadas - which is useless information to most people other than my mom who i´m sure [View Full Entry]

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The plane ride was really long, and uneventful. I took the bus into the city - it´s not short, it took over 2 and a half hours. But i like trying to figure my way around public transportation systems in languages i don´t understand. The plus side of taking the bus is that i got to see pretty much the entire city, and figure out how to use the bus system. First i had to use my limited spanish skills to get money out of an atm, and then figure out how to get 1.50 in coins from the hundred peso [View Full Entry]

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