A very exuberant weekend in Mar de Plata followed the relaxing Easter Holidays. Over the Easter weekend my friends from Colorado and the CU Women's rugby team arrived bearing necessities and gifts from up north. The most exciting of them being a stockpile of peanut butter! A care package my Mom put together included a birthday gift of a fully loaded MP3 player (thanks Bro!), a lot of Tabasco, magazines in English, various spices to heat up our otherwise very sweet palate of food, my favorite snack foods including Craisins and Luna Bars and, of course, extra underwear. Thanks Mom! Thanks [View Full Entry]

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A weekend at the Beach Last weekend was a much needed break from literally a week of solid pouring rain. It rained so hard that in my 40 min walk home from work the seams of my umbrella began to split under the pressure!!! Buenos Aires had ridiculous floods causing them to hold a rope and wade through 3 and a half feet of water at the corners! Obviously they have drainage system issues here and the government again promised to fix them with an underground piping system.. But of course this promise was made last year as well.... So in [View Full Entry]

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Friday, after I wrote the last blog, I tried to rest up as much as I could until the concert. I ended up waiting over 30 minutes for the bus and it eventually came. The concert started late (like most things in Argentina), so I didn´t miss anything. I saw Santiago and Leandro, and Lucas outside, we drank a little Fernet & Coca-cola and went inside to wait for the show. Front row. The place was actually packed...probably about 100 people and at times every one of them were clapping, and pumping their fists in the air to the music. Almas [View Full Entry]

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Two games of football took place this weekend in the coastal area of Mar Del Plata. The first was a tight affair, involving players recruited from all over the world and played with flair and passion in egual measures. The second was Boca Juniors Vs River Plate which I will come onto later. This first match took place on the beach during the afternoon prior to "El Superclasico". A team of four unlikely but determined Europeans took on a bunch of tanned, toned argnetine primadonnas with the pride of our respective continets at stake. Our team comprised of myself, Jamie (also [View Full Entry]

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So the school set up a weekend trip for Plata del Mar, a beach town south of Bs As. It was pretty expensive, 350 pesos, but it included transportation to and from Mar del Plata and a ticket for the biggest game in Argentina, Boca Juniors vs River Plate. I don't know why they are called those names. Rather different I know but try to explain to someone outside of America why we have teams called Mets or Sooners. I decided to go on the trip because, really, what the hell else am I going to do. I started playing football [View Full Entry]

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After a five hour bus ride, I reached the Atlantic coastline and the city of Mar del Plata. Everything went smoothly with the bus ride, except that I wasn´t exactly sure where I was going to stay that night and I was getting into town around 10pm. Good thing people stay up late here. When I got off the bus, I grabbed a bottle of water and made my way towards the nearest Locutorio. A Locutorio is a private payphone/internet cafe that it seems are everywhere in Argentina. In fact, I´m typing from one right now. I´d read a description of [View Full Entry]

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Well, maybe a few butts... We discovered Sir Mixalot´s inspiration at Mar del Plata - and it wasn´t pretty. The thong is all the rage in the beach town south of Buenos Aires, so butts abound. And beach etiquette makes for full back views. Instead of getting their bronze on sprawled across towels, Argentines stand in small groups chatting with their feet in the chilly Pacific with their backsides facing the crowd. Our friends, Tristen and James, were nice enough to invite us to their timeshare in Mar del Plata. The Andersons also left their jobs in their home state of [View Full Entry]

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Here we are again! We have done quite a bit, so it has been a while since our last update. Bueno... after the amazing Iguazu Falls we took the bus back to Buenos Aires (17 hours), to arrvive there 8.30 am. That left us half an hour to catch the bus to Pinamar (4 hours). Yes.... we needed a siesta upon arrival in our hostel! Pinamar is a nice little village connected with Ostende (founded by Belgian settlers) and Carilo. It was very quiet when we were there. All the locals seemed to be preparing themselves for the beginning of the [View Full Entry]

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JULHO DE 2007 South America » Argentina » Mar del Plata By Andre Zain July 17th 2007 Andre Renato Fernandes ZainPOR DO SOL MAR DEL PLATA NO MES DE JULHO [View Full Entry]

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** I always thought that I would love to live by the sea/To travel the world alone and live more simply/I have no idea what’s happened to that dream/’Cause there’s really nothing left here to stop me** “Life For Rent” - Dido There are few better things to do in this world than start your morning sitting quietly next to the ocean, using all your senses to take in the world surrounding you. The calming rhythm of the waves coming in, going out, coming in again. The feel of warm sand under your feet and between your toes. The sun [View Full Entry]

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