Blogs from Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 389

It's here....well just about.... 48 hours from now and we will be just touching down in Buenos Aires. I have a plethora of etickets and travel vouchers to organize before we go. After triple checking, everything is in place and confirmed.... I'm such a stickler for details... Packing is a nightmare; it will be scorching hot, freezing cold, wet, dry and everything in between. To make things more difficult, Aerolineas Argentinas has the strictest weight restrictions this side of Fat Fighters. I can see frequent visits to the local lavandería automática on the horizon. I can't say I'm looking forward to the flight. At 6'4'' I don't sit happily in economy; Business Class is much more civilized. Could be time for some creative manoeuvring...where's my walking stick and neck brace?? How often this 'Blog is updated ... read more

I arrived at my home for the next 3 months on an overnight bus from Buenos Aires. The journey was 9 hours, I think I slept for a couple of them. A long journey, after a rather long day... ... after my previous entry I spent the Wednesday morning as planned with my room mate Luisa wandering the streets of BA, around the old quarter. We went to the area known as 'La Boca', where the Tango is particularly supposed to have originated, on the docks. Now it is a tourist area, painted wodden buildings with tin roofs painted in the most amazing lurid colours, the roof green, one wall blue, the shutters yellow, and the windows red. There are people dancing the Tango on every other corner, trying to attract a few pesos, and the ... read more

Well I arrived back in BA very late on Monday evening, to the sweltering heat of the city. After the wind blown steppes of Patagonia, the still air and humid heat is almost oppressive, making movement rather on the uncomfortable side. Yesterday was spent saying my good byes to the rest of the group and Graciella (scarey, now on my own in the big city) trying to sort out a bed for the night, (succesful), book a bus to get the ranch (a double decker sleeper bus - wish me luck with that one!), get a new SIM card so I can recieve calls without costing the earth (not sure if it's actually working yet, no-one has actually been able to call me yet!), putting digital photos onto CD to send home (took ages) and replying ... read more

Hello! This one is for all you doubters out there who thought we´d never make it...all safe and well here in hot & sweaty Buenos Aires. The BA flight was quite long, not aided by the slobbering character sleeping beside me on the plane (no, not Laura) and the 25 Argentinian teenagers returning from their degree course in the Finsbury Park School of Applied English (cash only, terms & conditions apply). Got here without any hassle and safely checked in to the lovely Garden House Hostel in the San Telmo district of the city. Great place - not too many people staying, so no late night rowdy mobs to disturb my beauty sleep...kind of geared towards the travelling community in a nice kind of way. My only gripe is the lack of aircon (that we´ve been ... read more

Aca estoy en casa en Pinamar preparandome para salir a recorrer el sur Chileno, la idea es salir desde Gral. Roca, Rio Negro; con mi primo en su camioneta y apuntar derecho a Chile y recorrer hacia al sur hasta donde se termine el camino, todavia no se muy bien por donde vamos a ir porque el esta preparando la ruta...pero mas o menos seria: Entrar a Chile por Temuco y bajar hasta la altura de Los Antiguos en Santa Cruz, y si se puede llegar a El Calafate y volver, mas o menos 15 dias. Les cuento que estoy creando este Blog, que lo voy a tratar de mantener actualizado, aunque por lo que vi en donde vamos a Chile no existen muchas posibilidades de conectarse a Internet, asi que seguramente el blog lo actualizare ... read more