Blogs from Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 15

Hola, Buenos Aires! Unless you would like to hear every minute detail of my brilliant overpacking job, there's not much to say regarding the day we left. I woke up, went for a run, packed, and was on my way to the airport around 2:00. Our flight to Atlanta was about an hour late, so we took off a bit before 5:00, then had about a 1.5 hour layover in Hartsfield-Jackson before boarding our 757 to Buenos Aires. It appears that not a lot of people are crazy enough to fly from summer to winter, as the plane was perhaps 60% full -- most rows had 3 or 4 of the 7 seats taken. I doubt there was a single full row. A 10 hour flight later, and boom: Buenos Aires.... read more

Wow – where do I begin with Buenos Aires? It is an old city filled with European buildings, cobblestoned streets, suburbs bursting with personality, ghettos and a buzzing nightlife. Our first couple of days were spent in and around the busy city that is home to 15 million people – known locally as porteños - and to start off with I struggled to find the right words to describe how I found it...big, busy, majestic, imposing but somewhat confused all at the same time. The buildings are ridiculously beautiful and every block offers another structure equally as spectacular as the last…(more on this later). We spent a couple of days exploring the city centre (or as much as we could after walking for hours each day) and then ventured out to some barrios (neighbourhoods) ... read more

Mommy and I decided to go to the Eva Peron Museum in Palermo BA. There we say pictures of her family, her acting days, and when she was the First Lady of Argentina. They had lots of her shoes, accessories and dresses on display. She was a generous amazing woman.... read more

Going to the BOCA soccer game in Argentina was an experience of a life time. I really didn't understand the extent of how serious this country takes their soccer ( futbol) It totally puts our sports fans to shame....seriously it's embarrassing! There was 50,000 fans, they were hanging from the cement pillars, stacked in every aisle....jumping, dancing, singing and waving their arms in a crazy bicep curl kinda way....it's their cheer. Uncle Cameron you would be totally out of business in this country, these fans need no help! Olivia' perspective - when the players of the VenezuelIan team came out everyone started to whistler.....so I joined in whistling and cheering. Little did I know the whistling is the form of booing....I quickly stop :):)... read more

EVENING It was 7pm when I’d had some rehydration sachets and felt well enough to finally go looking for a newspaper. I must have searched in twenty different places for one, where each owner had directed me to another place. I’d tried sweet shops, book shops, kiosks and magazine shops but not one had a newspaper. After one hour I found a kiosk with a couple of tabloids. I was curious about the shortage of newspapers. The owner explained: ‘First thing in the morning all the unbiased newspapers were selling out quickly and by midday they had all gone. The second set of newspapers to sell were the less objective left-wing, socialist ones in support of Cristina. By 7pm the only ones left unsold were the right-wing tabloids which were against Cristina, the socialist president.' Well ... read more