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Published: October 4th 2009
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 American evangalists. There was a problem like they locked the doors by mistake or couldn´t get ramp up to plane....Any got on and basically when I got to Auckland (raining) picked up my bags and ran (as fast as you can with 15 kg of luggage on you) to the other terminal. Arrived sweating, checked in new bags, basically speed customed my way through and got to gate 20min before departure (with a change of clothes)!
On the plane I got to sit next to a nice Brazilian man about my dad´s age who I chatted to and by the end of the flight he offered to help me out in Sao Paulo, Brasil if I ever needed it - pretty nice. The place was muy basico though and didnt have any of the fancy tvs or anything but you know a good book and a sleep made the journey pretty quick.
When I arrived in Buenos Aires it was a toasty 24 degrees - now that´s what I call Spring. I went to a cafe and asked in my best Spanish for the coffee that the Argentinian people drink. She asked me if I wanted milk because it is pretty strong but being the daredevil I am said only cafe negro con sucre (sugar). Was pretty good. I sat in sun while waiting for my shuttle for three hours and then the thing didn´t turn up! I was told South America runs on its own time but half an hour late is late I reckon so 115 pesos later I have taken a taxi to the hostel. This is after using all my best spanish to try to get someone to help or advise me on buses and taxis - boy not many people speak English in the Aeropuerto...
So yeah got to hostel - very nice and clean and good loco. Met an Israeli girl who was on her second trip to South America doing the highlights as her first trip of nine months she had seretty much everything else. She also shares her pumpkin noodle soup with me which was a saviour as A it was my first meal that day and B the food in the supermercardo looked weird and the rice vegetable thing I had chosen to cook smelled weird... After that got talking to some English boys over wine and we went to a resturaunt for mignight dinner - and the surprising thing were there were haps of kids up and about like one and two year olds! Their rapid Spanish was alien to my ears after speaking English with my new Pommy friends so they promty said ´menu en ingles´ which was a bit embarrasing because we could still read Spanish! About halfway through we realised it was a Uruguyan resturaunt (´hey that flag looks different...´) and that we probably just dind´t understand because they were speaking a different dialect...(yeah right).
So yeah awesome steak one guy had and I muched on a salad because it´s quite rare you can get salad you can eat and I was dehydrated and hadn´t figured out I could drink the tap water yet...
Yeah so after that we rounded the block home and lots of people out and still finishing dinner at 1am and I went to sleep soon after...Hopefully a bright sunny day to explore the city tomorrow!
Ciao
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Derick
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Wow, I hope my trip is a bit less eventful.
Haha you went to a uruguayan restaurant by mistake? But how is it different from an Argentinian one? I hope you can adjust to the new time zone... but its sounds like they live in a our timezone... dinner at 1am? hmmm.... toasties ahhh.