ahora a confirmation that i have not disappeared off the face of the planet... and fotos. more later... [View Full Entry]

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Today was our last full day in BA so we were up early with plans to do our sightseeing, and taxi-ed over to Recoleta, the nicest suburb where we visited the cemetery where Eva Peron´s tomb lies. The prettiest cemetery i have ever visited, all coffins enclosed in magnificent tombs rather than buried in the ground.. I refrained from bellowing out Evita tunes, i predict i would have been ushered out quite quickly for ruining the serenity. Then we went over to La Boca, a notoriously bad neighbourhood with a few famous streets with bold multi-coloured houses. The place was abuzz [View Full Entry]

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So the big day came and went. After all the build up I've been giving it we just got on the train to London, got on the plane at Heathrow and ........ a long time later, here we are. I'm not sure what I was making such a fuss about ! No doubt this will change after a few weeks, but at the moment it just feels like being on holiday and an absolutely mint one at that ! Buenos Aires is great, the weather is perfect. Clear blue sky and a temperature which you can comfortably walk about in all [View Full Entry]

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Hey all!!! I'm in Buenos Aires Argentina. I just arrived a little while ago at the hostel i'm staying at. Everything went fine along the way which is very good! It was a LLLLOOONNNGGG flight though...let me tell you my back hurts like a...well i can't say but it hurts from trying to sleep on the plane! So i'm at the hostel and everything looks good and like its going according to my plans :-) I need a shower and a nap so I guess i'll be doing in that next and then i have to run to the hardware store [View Full Entry]

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Hey all, we thought it was about time we wrote something on this blog thingy. We promise we´ll try and keep it brief, with a sprinkling of pretty pictures. Right, lets start with Buenos Aires. It is enormous, busy and noisy, although our opinion has definately been affected by our location in the tourist and commercial part of town. As you escape the bustling centre there is definately a calmer cosmopolitan feel about the city and it has some lovely open parks and avenues. Our two hotels ranged from the sublime (booked from London for 2 nights, double booked, free upgrade [View Full Entry]

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Well, I got here in one piece following a reasonably painless flight from London, and found myself in the Milhouse hostel in central BA, which is supposedly the most fun and busy hostel in the city. There are a big mix of people here, loads of Aussies, a few of which Ive been spending pretty much all my time with so far - including one Aussie called Brad who lives in Ealing, of all places. So the city - its massive, sprawling, and elegant in places, dilapidated in others. Recoleta is BAs Kensington, full of boutique shops and heavily made up [View Full Entry]

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Waking up with a dirty hangover and knowing you have to check out of your hotel, speed down to the bus terminal where you will await your 20 hour bus ride is never much fun.... we took quite a while to get going that day. We arrived down at the bus terminal. Leigh was in charge of getting us some iceblocks while i lay slumped over our bags. The highlight of my morning was being in the kiosk at the bus terminal and the radio was playing "girls just want to have fun". I was paying for yet another ice block [View Full Entry]

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Our only agenda Tuesday (8/26) was to walk around and visit a museum or two. Swapna's friend, who had lived in Argentina for a couple of years, Nathan, had recommended walking thru a neighborhood North of Figeroa Alcorta, between Tagle and St. Martin de Tours just to check out the architecture and said it was a nice stroll. (Nathan had also given us several other recommendations and tips which we took him up earlier in our trip, so that was nice to have) So, that's where we headed first...it was walking distance from our apartment. Since we left late and hadn't [View Full Entry]

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so today we chased the sunset in the completely wrong direction :) but the sky was beautiful just the same, and i found out where the ecological preserve is. unfortunately we got there just as it was getting dark, so ill have to go another day. planning a trip back to uruguay this friday night, as my final exam is on friday. and tobian's visa has expired so he needs to leave the country for 24 hrs in order to be able to stay another 90 days. so the tres hermanos are off for a wonderful relaxing stay in colonia :). [View Full Entry]

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Monday the 18th to Monday the 25th of August This entry will not be split into different days, mainly because i dont really remember on which day each event happened. This lack of memory is mainly due to the fact that for one full week i was not really myself or more precisely i have never felt normal. For 7 days I have been one of the following a) drunk b) hungover c) really tired d) starving e)stuffed like a pig, never normal. Each night consisted of going out partying somewhere, each day consisted of getting up really hungover and trying [View Full Entry]

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