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Published: September 4th 2008
We are finally here in Buenos Aires, Argentina!!! After planning this so long we have had our first three days in the Argentinian capital and it has been excellent.
The easiest way to describe BA is as a very cosmopolitan, very big and very busy city. It has a very european feel, and we feel it is like a cross between a spanish and italian city with new york. It has the mixture of bright lights at night, huge buildings, masses of people and a buzz across the whole place.
We arrived on Tuesday and after 24 hours of travelling were absolutely shattered, but still spent a few hours taking in the sights around the city centre where we are staying. We saw huge buildings such as the National Congress, mixed with very old and gothic buildings. We also looked round the city cathedral which was very grand.
On Wednesday we spend the morning in La Boca, which has a reputation for being one of the roughest areas in BA, however we thought it was fine and spent the first part looking round the Boca Juniors stadium (which adam loved) and the second part looking round the Italian
influenced docks that are renowned for thier brightly painted houses and live-street tango (and saw a maradona lookalike charging money for photos with him!!).
We also went and has a huge steak and chips for tea for the equivalent of four quid in england!
Today we visited Recoleta in the north of BA which is very posh and included the cemetary that has the most grand and elaborate tombs which included Evitas grave. It was astonishing and hard to believe people were actually buried in small buildings the size of many local houses.
For only two and a half days we have done absolutely loads, and i feel like weve forgotten what we have seen and done! we were going to head out of BA tomorrow, but have decided to stick around for one day as we have tickets to see Argentina vs Paraguay in the world cup qualifiers on saturday!! (should be amazing - 90,000 stadium!!)
There is a selection of photos below, but due to a few technical problems we are struggling to upload all of them but can hopefully get them online in the next few weeks.
We are both well and
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busy busy busy!having a great time, thanks for reading!
Adam and Daisy
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Rosie
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Looks awesome!!! La Boca looks like a little art village more than anything - Can't imagine it to be rough.. And I see what you mean about the city being a cross between a Spanish or Italian town and NY.. Totally not how I imagined it. Have fun at the football (poor Daisy :-)! Take care guys!! xx