Buenos Airies June 08 First of all, massive thanks to Bro and Hollers for coming over to visit us. I had a superb 30th birthday , cheers. The two weeks with the above two didn't start as smoothly as we would have liked ! We had arranged a flightfrom Rio to Buenos Airies the night before Bro and Hollers'arrival, we landed around midnight, got into a hotel near the airport knowing that we wouldn't be getting much sleep. In bed around 2am , we were then back in the arrivals at 7.45am. We prepared our 'welcome signs'and then the long wait [View Full Entry]

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How does a group of students from the USA properly celebrate the 4th of July in Buenos Aires? They go to a "country" bar and listen to the Argentine band "The South" play well known country and bluegrass songs, of course! I'm not sure Garth Brooks would have recognized his own work, but the Argentines at the bar (decked out in tight jeans, boots, huge belt buckles, and cowboy hats) sure knew the words. Talk about a surreal evening.....as the night wore on (and the night doesn't even begin til midnight here), the bar got crazier and crazier. After a while, [View Full Entry]

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Hola! I have done lots of exciting things since i last posted an entry, so here goes day by day: Thursday- At night a group of my classmates and I went and took Tango lessons! It was very fun, but very hard, the lessons were very crowded and only an hour so we only got to learn the basic step. I liked it tho and i think we are going to back and try again soon. Friday (4th of July)- after I talked with everyone at Momo's I went with a group of friends to see a live Argentinean band perform [View Full Entry]

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Today I got up and decided before my class would begin that I wanted to take a walk along the different parks and Museums in Barrio Norte, which is just an area near where I live. It was kinda exciting doing all the walking on my own and having such freedom especially when I was at the Floralis Generica (this giant flower dish) where looking at all the tourist with their guides and really being stuffed with info after info, I just felt in a way that I was glad I’m discovering all this on my own and that I have [View Full Entry]

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I did my best to escape Buenos Aires without doing anything tango-related, but Becky is quite persistent when it comes to such things. There was no way she was getting me to take a dance class, and neither one of us wanted to do a touristy dinner/show, so we observed tango the authentic way: we went to a milonga. Thanks to Becky's coworker, we had an inside connection to a neighborhood milonga, and made reservations for 11:30. After a pretty amazing nap from 8:30-9:30, we were well rested and prepared for a long night. We were right on time to the [View Full Entry]

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Na een reis van 35 uren en veel vliegveld te hebben gezien kwam ik dan eindelijk aan in BA! Het zweet momentje dat ik in Sao Paulo heb opgelopen de eerste dag kwam abrupt tot een eind, het is hier KOUD! Was even vergeten dat het hier winter is... Vanuit het vliegtuig was de uitgestrektheid van de stad goed zichtbaar: geen Enschedeeee! Na samen met de taxi chauffeur opzoek te gaan naar een hostel en deze uiteindelijk in hartje centrum te vinden was het tijd voor een feestje, vier Brazilianen uit Aracaju waren zo vriendelijk om mij mee te nemen. Afgelopen [View Full Entry]

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5/7/2008 Waking up today for some reason I just felt very powerful. So after all the girls had a hard night out and were still resting and sleeping in. I decided to take a walk and hopefully make my way towards Puerto Madero, where all the lovely ports are(as Buenos Aires locals are famous for being labeled as Los Porteños). However, as I started walking and getting into things and started taking pictures…I kid you not ..something hysterical happened, as I was trying to line up a shot for one of the building pics, a bird had not only SHITTED on [View Full Entry]

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liz says... hello from minneapolis! after an overnight flight, kristine and i arrived back in 80 degree minnesota this afternoon. quite the change from winter in buenos aires. some brief reflections of buenos aires days and nights: 1) mullets and mohawks, combined: it seems that the fashionable young males in the city have a penchant for a combo mullet-mohawk hairstyle that is, quite frankly, a bit hard to get used to. but then, after a while, you start to think, huh, that one isn't so bad. and before you know it, you are in a subte car full of mul-hawks and [View Full Entry]

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Just arrived in Peurto Madryn which is in the a region called Chubut in Patagonia. Took 18 hours on the bus although the buses here in Argentina are far superior to Englands so it was quite a nice journey. Beunos Aires was truly amazing. It´s a massive city and I´ve never seen hustle and bustle like it! Not even in London. The people were amazing, so friendly and luckily most know a reasonable amount of English although we have been trying to speak Spanish and were slowly getting better. Met so many people, Argentinian and fellow backpackers. There are tonnes of [View Full Entry]

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Yes, I am still here. In case you're not jealous yet, I writing this entry on my laptop, sitting on my balcony. Today the temperature climbed into the high 70's, and now it has cooled about 10 degrees. From my seat here, I am staring directly at the Obelisk, which is lit up at night. Since today was the perfect Buenos Aires day, I guess it's the right time to write about my life since I've been in this apartment. For those of you who know the city, I have an apartment on the 1500 block of Avenida Corrientes, between Parana [View Full Entry]

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