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Published: December 15th 2007
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Tango on the street
It´s not just in the clubs that these people dance... I have to confess I was a little freaked out by Buenos Aires on the first day here due to overload of people, beggars, pace and noise. It´s really grown on me though and we´ve had a great time here.
It´s a city of huge contrasts - near our hotel (not fancy) are some very fancy hotels, shops and apartments, yet right along side are the poorest people who make a living on the streets going through the rubbish at night looking for items to recycle. At night you see families scrabbling around in huge piles of rubbish right near a posh hotel. There are large grand old buildings which are beautifully kept right beside horrid dirty falling down ones.
Bill is in heaven here with all the BBQ restaurants. On the first night we had a really nice meal out where Bill got about three meals worth of meat on a skewer and ate every last morsel, washed down by some nice Argentinian Cab Sav and served by extravagent waiters with bow ties.
We walked miles around the city and inner suburbs. It´s relatively easy city to naviagte and we have not got lost at all despite
Oh my God - It´s Tana!
I was missing Tana too, so it was nice to see him. I think the other guy might be Jonah. things not always being where they say they are on the map. Today we went to Recoleta, a posh neighbourhood near the city centre where the cemetery which houses Evita´s grave is. What a bizarre place - it´s like a city in miniature, complete with grand building and streets (but small) and each building is actually a tomb! I felt like we were in a really elaborate maze or a movie set or something.
We´ve had some very funny experiences, which I´ll mostly leave for BIll to tell you about as he thinks he´s the funny one in the family. I did laugh and laugh when I saw a little figurine of Tana just randomly sitting in the window display of a men´s clothes shop! (It wasn´t even a sports clothes shop!).
We´re going ok with our Spanish too, although as quite a few of the words are similar to English I do find myself falling into the trap of assuming that is you add ´ito´or ´a´or similar to an English word it automatically becomes Spanish.
Hope you are all well and enjoying the sun which I hear you´re having at home.
We´re off to the
Iguazu Falls on an overnight bus tonight, so more later.
Nic
Peeps,
As Nic has said above this places rocks the party that rocks the party. I thought the chicks in Santiago were hot this place is to absolutely die for. Every chick here is hot!! No on a more serious side the poverty on some of the streets and the degradation of some of the nicer buildings is most upsetting and I feel with higher taxes on the locals this place could really look a million dollars. No the chicks are hot, pretty much every single one of them. Jones and Dinga would be flabbergasted if they came over here.
So yes we have had a great time here and there have been a large number of rather funny/bizarre things that we have stumbled across.
So anyway I think on the second night we decided to go out and have a beer around the corner. Little did we know that we had walked into a brothel/gentlemen´s club and every single person turned and just stared at us. The ladies (is that what they´re called Dinga?) just stared at us as if we were some sick preverted couple. We gapped it after a very qu¡ck and expensive beer. Left there and went to another place that we could see was not a brothel because there were women with clothes on and men that were under that age of 60. Whilst getting a beer Nic got slapped by a six year old girl who was trying to sell greeting cards and she also gave Nic the fingers as she left. I bloody told Nic to just buy the god damn cards.
So that was that night.
We have also managed to find a Bingo hall which I thought was perfect I love Bingo. Fu&k I´m dumb because I completely forgot that the numbers would be called out in Spanish and I had no idea if I was getting a line or a Bingo or what. I didn´t win anything and we left around about 6 dollars down. Walked up the road to find a video game parlour. Theres no way these things can be in ´Spanish. They weren´t but the games were all like from the 80´s. It was brilliant. I think I spent an hour or so playing Wonder Boy and all of I sudden I was 14 again, just in Buenos Aires.
So yeah all up a brilliant place. We managed to get to the Argentina Open last night and because of the lateness of the games we only stayed for one match. Chela played Calleri which was good. Certainly a touch bigger than the Wellington Open. When we got back we met some guy that was also in our hotel. He told us that if we were going to Mexico City (which we are) to give him a call and he´ll show us around with his brother, who just so happens to be ´The Govenator´. That cracked us up because I ain´t never heard of a govenator and also made us think Arnie Swartzenagger because he is both a Govenor and also the Terminator. So yeah I think we´ll get in touch when we land in Mexico City.
Anyway I´ve talked enough and you´re all probably sick of reading my crap.
Peace out and laters.
Billy
PS from Nic - my husband isn´t quite the pervert he appears with all the comments about the chicks. I think he is just a bit overwhelmed.
PPS - we´ve added a post about Santiago and also some photos to the Easter Island post, so have a look at them too.
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Megan
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Sounds like you are having a fantabulous time :-) Glad to here that Chile was awesome as that is not a very far away place to get to these days....although I probably wouldn't be going to look at all the hot women :-) The Moai pictures look very cool. Enjoy Iguazu Falls. Mx