Blogs from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, South America - page 5

So, within 24 hours of standing in the cold, looking at a massive glacier in Patagonia, we were dragging our backpacks through Rosario, 2000 kilometres and 30 odd degrees centigrade away. It was the biggest city we'd been to since Santiago and we liked it. We stayed 3 nights in a hostel with a balcony (so that Sarah could be nosey). The heat was almost unbearable but there were plenty of heladerias selling ice cream and loads of good bars selling cold beers. The city is famous amongst other things for being the birthplace of Che Guevara and a great football rivalry between Rosario Central and Newell's Old Boys. On the second night we were there, there was a huge rally of thousands of people commemorating the 33rd anniversary of the 1976 military coup in Argentina. ... read more

Woke up late due to too much Salsa the night before. If not for that, then I was probably exhausted from using my hands and feet to talk to people. No one speaks English in those small towns I´m in, and my Spanish isn´t exactly um... fluent. However, if you need someone to get the bill, or the price of things ... I´m your girl. Rosario is a cute big town. It is set along a river, which makes it very pretty. On the riverbank is a humongous monument for the flag. It marks the birthplace of the Argintine flag. After seeing that, I once again underestimated the distance and walked the 20 blocks to a museum I thought would be worth visiting. It was supposed to educate me on the Inca Tribe and their reign ... read more

Day 679 (06.02.09) Today we were headed from Buenos Aires to Rosario, a few hours to the north. We´d planned a day or so in Rosario to break up the long journey to Iguazu where we´d cross over to Brazil in our journey over to Rio for carnaval in a couple of weeks time. All the way through South America we´d wondered about the size of the bus station in BA, imagining it to be of epic proportions as in every town we´d been to so far, in every country, it seemed that you could catch a bus to Argentina´s capital city. When we´d arrived a few days before we hadn´t been disappointed by its massiveness, and back there once again we searched the multiple ticket desks for the next bus to Rosario and accidentally managed ... read more

SOOOOOO....this weekend was long and wonderful because of Columbus day there was no classes Monday :-) yay!!! The week days are pretty normal for me, I just go to class during the day and then go to salsa classes or hang out with Maxi...oh yeah I do some studying every once in awhile too ;-) haha SO, my weekend...Friday, as always, Maxi and I went to lunch...pretty normal. We also went to Parque Independencia for a little while just to sit down, hang out, and enjoy the view of the fountain and some of the interesting birds. They were too far away for me to get any good pictures but there was a couple of interesting looking ducks and some other random birds too....Argentina has some cool wildlife i must say! Saturday my friend Scott and ... read more

Not much to say about during the day. Went to the Museum of Contemporary Arts-closed, to the ‘Garden for Kids’ (rides and shows)-closed, Pichincha (area of note)-yawn. The architecture is magnificent though, and if we could stay longer, we would’ve. There’s a fair bit we’d liked to have seen or done, like taking the boat across to the Island or see the north of the city. Now though, we were looking forward to going to the meeting on Wednesday night. One brother, Lalo, in his 50‘s, accosted Callum straight away. (everyone loves Callum, with his blonde locks) He spoke a little English, and loved to hear Callum talk about being able to play the keyboard and the different music he liked. Though he’d never heard of Powderfinger or silverchair, he loved listening to Cal, then explaining ... read more