http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/what-happened-to-argentina/ [View Full Entry]

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Here are my pics from around Buenos Aires. It is a beautiful city, reminds me of Madrid. [View Full Entry]

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When Hayley and I went to bed, we weren´t sure if our clocks were right since the time had changed. Turns our they were wrong. Good thing Alison knocked on our door a little after 8 to see if we were up. Our tour bus was going to pick us up at 9 am. We got up quick and got ready. We went downstairs to get breakfast around 8:30. Breakfast was included free in our package. We could get tea, coffee, or hot chocolate. To eat there was a big tray of bread (toast and crescent rolls with jelly and butter). [View Full Entry]

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So after much stress and running around and almost thinking I was going to miss the flight, amoung other things, and utilizing all of my Espanol I have arrived at my backpackers in Palermo, Buenos Aires! First of all my flight from Wellington to Auckland with good ol Jetstar was an hour and a half DELAYED. Aghh I heard they were delayed but you know when you have your fingers crossed that it isn´t you? We waited for ages in a hot room waiting to get on while this kid told funny and bizare stories to me and a group of [View Full Entry]

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We didn´t want to spend our time in Buenos Aires sleeping to so we met at 9 am on Saturday morning to go sight-seeing. We all went down for breakfast together. I had tea and bread again. I kind of wanted to go to the art museum in BA called the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. It was near a lot of stuff that we had driven past yesterday and wanted to see up close. We decided that it wouldn´t be too far to walk. We kind of took the scenic route but sometimes that is more fun. We saw an [View Full Entry]

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We didn´t want to waste a day in BA so we got up around 11 to go to a cemetery called Recoleta. It would be like Arlington in the United States because a lot of famous people and presidents are buried there. It was raining on Sunday, appropriate weather to visit a cemetery. Hayley really didn´t want to get up but we didn´t want to go without her. I showered and then Catie, Alison, and I walked to find some food while we gave her some time to wake up. Apparently nothing is open on Sunday but we eventually found a [View Full Entry]

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I got up at 7 am on Monday so I could shower and get my things together before it was time to leave. We wanted to be ready around 8:30 because the car was going to pick us up at 9. Hayley didn´t want to get up until the last minute so I just let her sleep. I was pretty much ready to go and I ordered breakfast to our room at 8. I ran downstairs to try and get the internet to work. I literally tried every single password but no luck. I saw our breakfast heading up to our [View Full Entry]

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Today we fulfilled one of the top items on our to do list. We managed to be in BA at the right time and to get tickets to watch Boca Juniors play in the Bombonera, and what a fantastic experience it was !!! The away team was Velez Sarsfield, the current champions, and from the western suburbs of BA - not the “classico” versus River Plate but a good match anyway. The tickets were for seats in the top tier of the north stand and only cost A$60 (~US16 or ~10 quid), I hate to say it but it makes paying [View Full Entry]

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23 Grad, die Sonne scheint. Ich bin super froh gut angekommen zu sein. Die Busfahrt war anstrengend und hat schlussentlich lange 67 Stunden gedauert. Ja, der A... hat mir ziemlich weh getan, bis ich ihn dann entlich nicht mehr gespuert habe. Gut, das hat dann ein bisschen beim Gehen gehindert, aber mit Verluesten muss man halt rechnen. Ich bin dafuer hier in Buenos Aires schon richtig zu Fleisch und Wein gekommen. Das Warten hat sich gelohnt :-) Von Buenos Aires kann ich sonst noch nicht viel berichten, es macht aber einen sehr netten Eindruck und ich froie mich viele alte Bekannte [View Full Entry]

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Catie´s host mom picked me up at my house to go the bus station. Our bus tickets were for 10:30 p.m. Catie wanted to be really early for some reason so they picked me up around 9 p.m. Alison was going to meet us at the bus station. We arrived at the bus station at 9:20. Alison wasn´t there yet and she had our tickets. Catie thought that Alison was going to be there at 9:30 but Hayley and I thought maybe she thought we were meeting at 10. We tried texting and calling her but she didn´t answer. Catie was [View Full Entry]

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