Blogs from Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 391

La Boca Nicole and I decided that we should check out the neighborhood of La Boca, which is also home of one of the best soccer teams in Argentina, especially because the most famous player in the country, Diego Maradona, played for that team. La Boca is a waterfront neighborhood and its character derives from families who could not afford paint for their homes, instead they used leftover paint from boats which resulted in a prism of corrugated metal, cobblestone streets, and expressive people. It’s a poor neighborhood and many of the well off people would wrinkle their nose at the mention of La Boca and tell us it's not safe to go because it's full of thieves and robbers . . . a funny thing is it’s on the list of the Top Ten ... read more

Leaving Punta Arenas and also Chile for the last time, we headed down to Ushuaia, stopping overnight at Rio Grande, which is a tiny place. Nothing to do but sleep after dinner, which was especially interesting as the campsite was basically a boggy carpark, so most of us slept inside on the floor of the yacht club where the campsite was. When I say most of us, that would be our group plus another Overland group, so about 50 people in the room... fortunately after a carton of wine, some nightnurse tablets for my cold, and the aid of earplugs, I actually slept very well! Didn´t even wake up when drunken people from the other group were stepping on us to find their spot on the floor....! Arrived in Ushuaia the next day, again camping facilities ... read more

Hola First thing, the beards back and the Mullet is coming on well. I feel like a proper local again. Did everyone enjoy 7th February. Why? Because it was officially Dave´s National Wine day! I hoped you all had a glass back home. I certainly did. Ill explain a little later. After crossing the border I jumped on a bus to salta with a group I met at the immigration office. Its really hot now im near the tropics and that ive dropped down in altitude. Apart from eating alot of steak, i didnt really do much in Salta apart from climb a hill. Its a bit of a habbit now. I then went off to the nothern wine region of Cafayate. The next day I declared Dave´s national wine day. On this day I decided ... read more

Major breakthrough!! (and quick I might add) I spent the entire last night speaking (and understanding) Spanish. It innocently started out as any other night with four other kids from school. After a walking tour of the neighborhood of San Telmo, which I will talk about later, we stopped to eat in a famous ´parrilla´, or grill, to have a meal. We started out with a liter (that´s bigger than a bottle) of wine for 6 pesos, for two people. Yah, jaw dropped to the floor. And it wasn´t the typical crappy house wine, it was nice and drinkable. Then for our meal, the majority of us took the ´bife de lomo´, or tenderloin steak, for 12 pesos. People, for FOUR dollars! I also ordered grilled red peppers on the side, for six pesos, and it ... read more

we are now in buenos aires but some of the pictures are from before and everything is sort of a mix... ... read more