Blogs from Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 395

San Telmo (For sure) Before I left home, I researched a way to get vaccines for less money as Nicole paid a whopping $400 for hers!! I found a place in BA, that administers the Yellow Fever Vaccine, free of charge. The hours are specific, but its free and the vaccine lasts 10 years, so I was down to get it. I didn´t know what to expect, so we took the train (this time we asked no one, and just went by the map), and we found it easily enough. The name of the place was something having to do with the sanitation of their borders (I was translating), so I guess they are so adamant about people not bringing diseases that they give anyone free shots. The whole thing took all of 5 minutes...I ... read more

Known to some as the "paris of south america", buenos aires (or the city of good air) has yet to disappoint.... i have been here for 3 weeks, and all is can say is...i love it here! home to the infamous "evita" peron, the iconic maradona, carlos gardel, and as many would argue, the cultural mecca of the continent - buenos aires has a ton to offer. the city was originally colonized by the spanish back in the 1500's, and still carries its initial European influences. it's situated next to the Rio de la Plata, the main water artery, separating it from Uruguay and originally providing trade access and the opportunity to eventually claim Independence from spain in 1816. composed of many distinct barrios, culture abounds..from a thriving nightlife, developed art & literary scene, gorgeous architectural ... read more

Well after I got done writing an email Monday about the wonderful weather we´ve been having, here goes yesterday. I get up to sweltering heat. I´m sweating. I take a shower and even before I get out of the bathroom, I´m sweating. The fan´s on full blast, still sweating. I wear shorts and a tank top and my tennis shoes so that I can walk to school. Thank goodness there are trees everywhere or I really would have burnt to a crisp. Get to school and of course we have the classroom with no air-conditioning. We have a fan, but then the electricity goes out for about 30 minutes. I know, I´m dying. Around 5pm, I start to notice the awful dullness of the flourescent lighting, which means that the sun disappeared. We end at 6, ... read more

Sorry we haven’t been in contact for a while, but we’re both very well, getting quite tanned and eating superbly! Have met some lovely people and are thoroughly enjoying everything we have seen of Argentina so far. We’d just like to apologise now though for our poor literacy and shoddiness of this first entry… we can only hope it improves as we go on! We started with 5 nights in Buenos Aires, which is a superb city, much like many European cities, but unfortunately with a bit more poverty. We explored most of the inner city districts, which provided a huge variety - from La Boca with its constant party atmosphere, where all the houses (tin and wooden - as it is a very poor area) are painted in loads of different bright colours and tango ... read more

Now we´re talking!!! Friday night at Asia de Cuba was pretty good, but Saturday night at Opera Bay, Oh my God, what a place what a night!! From outside it looks like a small, flattened Sydney Opera House. Inside, it looks like Paradise. Three large rooms with different atmospheres and music, large mezzanine seating areas and lots and lots of gorgeous women, in a very acceptable male-female ratio! Being so large, it never got ridiculously crowded either, and 2 of the rooms were quite bright and airy, which made the place real condusive to meeting new people. Chris, Mike and I met a really lovely friendly gang of local gals, and had a great night. Exchanged lots of contact details, and definitely gonna have to go for a drink with Vivian some time I think.... The ... read more