So, my Buenos Aires blog was kind of rushed, seeing as I wrote it a couple of days after I actually left the city so I am writing my Rosario one when I am actually in the city! Well, the weather today is pretty bad, I am quite disappointed that I couldn´t head to the beach and work on my tan to make you all jealous! There is not a huge amount to do in Rosario if the weather is poor, apart from go to a museum, which I walked for 45 minutes in the rain to get to, only to [View Full Entry]

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Just before I leave Buenos Aires alone I just want to note a few observations I made: 1. Argentineans love their sweets - there is a sweet shop on every corner and in between. They also have coffee black with sugar for breakfast and dulce de leche on toast- basically sweetened condensed milk! I have been consuming at least three times the sugar I normally do back home. 2. Portenos (people of Buenos Aires) are helpful if you are lost but always suspicious of others. 'go this way but be careful of the others' or 'that other way is dangerous'. They [View Full Entry]

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After checking into our hostel in Rosario, Pablo and I were hungry! We hadn't eaten at a proper parilla (meaning grill - a steakhouse) yet and we asked for suggestions for a good one. We were directed a few blocks away to a local place that was packed. We waited a bit and experienced our first true parilla - an assortment of grilled meat, organs, and sausages. The weather was nice enough and we decided to explore the city in the dark, hearing that it was the best time to see the flag monument. We had a fun night skipping around [View Full Entry]

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I love Mendoza. I took the opportunity to visit the Argentine city in October of 2007, and it was one of the best South American experiences I have had. There is nothing quite like taking a long summer bike trip down its quaint streets, sipping the many wines that each local vineyard has to offer, not to mention the outrageous selection of outdoor adventures (I would personally recommend horseback riding through the Andes; it is incredible!). So it may seem weird that when given the opportunity to go a second time, I said no. Honestly, I wanted to go but was [View Full Entry]

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Not too far from Rosario’s national flag monument lays a unique pool with odd rock figures in the center where children can often be found jumping from rock to rock. At second glance, however, and you can see that it is in fact a monument which commemorates those who perished in the Falkland’s War. Around the pool, a semi-circle wall lists the approximately 649 Argentine soldiers who were lost in the war. I didn’t realize until after I saw the Falkland Island monument in Rosario that I have now seen all of the monuments dedicated to the Falkland War within Argentina. [View Full Entry]

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Haha seriously. I have a funny picture and it is the only reason I remembered my birthday was today. I´m sure I would have figured it out once I got to the computer but I guess otherwise... my mind must be in other places. We are here in Rosario a popular tourist destination (well not now but usually) its a beautiful city with nice pedestrain walkways and bolevards. We just came from Sante Fe´and as I said wasn´t even in our 1300 page book. But it actually turned out to be very nice. A small, city where it seemed the "rich [View Full Entry]

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Rosario is a super town located 4 hours north of Buenos Aires and we headed there as it has a massive student population so we thought there would be some good music and bar action going on. Its the home of the Argentine flag which was designed by General Belgrano - the monument to the flag is amazing and everyone hangs out there at night.It is also the birthplace of Che Guevara so we wanted to check out where he grew up. As we arrived on Palm Sunday we headed to the main plaza as dusk fell as we wanted to [View Full Entry]

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Here I am in Rosario, after a sleepless night on the bus. Strangely, the police stopped the bus three times on the road from Iquazu and asked to see our passports. This is a handsome city with cathedral and parks and tango bars. Last night Cristina (Servas) took me to a tango bar and I had my first lesson. What a sensuous dance though difficult to get the steps, shifting of weight, the trick that women must relax and flow with her partner but concentrate on proper holds and where her partner is trying to direct her. After the lesson the [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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So, after leaving Buenos Aires, I had 3 weeks to spend before I wanted to be back there for yet more football. Just about enough time to check out Rosario, Cordoba and Uruguay thought I. And so this first leg took me just 4 hours from BA to Rosario, famous for being the birthplace of Che Guevara. Now, I'm no communist, but this Guevara fellow seems rather popular, so I thought it was only right to see what the city had to offer in this respect. And at first glance, it seemed OK, apparently there was a monument to him in [View Full Entry]

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