Lost in Translation #1

In total we spent about 5 days in Buenos Aires, not enough time but we got to see a few of the places around the city. We went to Recoleta and visited the massive graveyard there. It is were Eva Peron and bunch of other ridiculously rich people are buried. The graves are mad, its like a town. After that we ventured to the Zoo... one of the worst zoos ever. There were enclosures that didn´t have animals in them anymore and the animals that were still alive were either manky looking or pacing up and down their enclosures. Still I got to see a puma and jaguar so I was happy. Some of the other areas we checked out were Puerto Maderom and La Boca (home to Boca Junoirs). We missed their last game of season by a day which is a shame because is would have been LOCO.

Our next stop was Rosario and our first lost in translation incident. We arrived during siesta time on Sunday afternoon and the place was a ghost town. In a bid to save some pesos we bought dinner at the supermercado and also some cerveza because they were sooooooo cheap. When we got to the check out the lady trys to inform us that as an incentive for recycling a deposit is paid and when you return the bottles with the receipt you get the 10 pesos back. However we didn´t have Maja with us and we are standing there like stunned mullets trying to make sense of what she is saying. It didn´t help that John was doing his best spanglish... ´Mucho Si, uno crato´. Instead of just giving up everyone around us thought that their spanish was easier to understand and it got louder and slower. All we could do was laugh which of course got us no where. Once Maja arrived it all made sense. To top of our reputation we returned all the bottles about 2 hours later.

The second incident happened the next day. We got some yoghurt and as we got to the counter we managed to drop it and make a mess. Pretty much the same thing happened, everyone starts speaking in spanish, John and I are saying ´no espanol,´ but that doesn´t stop them.

Rosario is a pretty cool place, it´s inland but has a massive river. We walked around the town and saw some cool stuff. The hostel we stayed at Che Pampa´s (apparently Che Guerva was born here) was pretty cool. Other than the supermarket Rosario was farely uneventful, but when I get on to telling about the next few towns there should be an adventure or two.

The map feature on here doens´t have Argentina detailed so I can´t show you our journey across the country. I will get to it soon though. I added heaps more photos and a video...

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