Blogs from Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 19

At 10.30am I went on a free walking tour around Buenos Aires lasting 4 hours mainly looking at the buildings. My plan for today was to get a quick tour of the main sights and then decide which ones to visit in more depth when I return to BA in February. Today felt like a real victory because I’d managed to walk and find my way from my hostel to the city centre and arrive more or lesson on time in the humid heat. I did the tour in Spanish with a local and was pleasantly surprised to find I could understand just about every detail about the Argentinian history and the only major obvious difference between Argentinian Spanish and Spanish from Spain to me was the pronunciation of ll as j, so they would say ... read more

My flight arrived into BA at around 9am local time. I successfully managed to get my baggage, change some currency at the Banco de la Nacion in the airport, have a cup of coffee and book an official taxi to my hostel. I arrived 2 hours early to my hostel and needed to wait until the room was ready. 15 minutes after I’d put my bags down I was ready to go exploring. I got talking to the owner of the hostel Antonio and he gave me a map and sent me on a tour at 3pm. Unfortunately with the heat, and the enormous size of the neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires I didn’t make the tour on time so I wondered around the neighbourhood and planned tomorrow. Recoleta, my neighbourhood is a safe one and the ... read more

I have always loved fireworks. I was so disappointed when Danville and then San Ramon stopped having fireworks. Tonight I was in fireworks heaven. We arrived this morning and without a full nights sleep headed out to explore our new neighborhood. We went shopping and walked and walked. We were beat and decided to go up to the roof to see if we could see any fireworks instead of walking to Parque Tres De Febrero to watch the fireworks. We bought sparklers and took them up to the roof with a botle of wine. O my the fireworks surrounded us. The sound bounced off the buildings. Everywhere you looked there were professional stlye fireworks. We watched for 40 min but I can still hear them going off. This was the best introduction to Buenos Aires. Happy ... read more

Before my trip to Patagonia, I spent few days and New Years Eve in Buenos Aires, at the place of Paola Romina and Pablo, friends of couch surfing. A small issue at the airport in Berlin, where I took my flight. I arrived around one hour before the flight and was told at the check-in that I cannot fly because I do not have an Esta for U.S. because of a change in Atlanta. Luckily the office of German post at the airport filled the form for me and I catched the flight few minutes before the departure. picture comments later ;)... read more

Am Nachmittag sind wir dann in Buenos Aires gelandet, wo wirklich herrliches Wetter war! Da unser Hostel genau im Zentrum, 200 Meter vom Obelisk, dem Wahrzeichen der Stadt, war, sind wir ein bisschen herumgegangen, um dort Fotos zu machen! Am Abend sind wir dann mit Vincis Gastschwester in ein Restaurant im Viertel 'Puerto Madero' essen gegangen, das 'Siga la vaca' hieß. (Vaca=Kuh). Dort gab es typisch argentinisch 'Asado', was wir mit BBQ vergleichen würden (auch wenn man es hier als Beleidigung ansieht, es so zu nennen). Aber es gab auf jeden Fall sehr sehr viel Fleisch jeglicher Art und man konnte sich so viel nehmen wie man möchte für einen Fixpreis. So haben wir uns natürlich durch alle Fleischarten und Zubereitungsarten durchprobiert. Am nächsten Tag hatten wir den Vormittag frei und sind deshalb zuerst zum Retiro, ... read more