- Food: Very good hotel food! - City: Polluted with smelly buses, very European feel, VERY wide roads - People: Friendly but hardly anyone speaks English - Weather: 30 degrees and hot! - General: Not everywhere excepts dollars after all! Arrived in Buenos Aires safe and sound. Already made a friend on the plane who´s Argentinian so has given me some tips. Hotel Castelar where I´m staying has a posh reception but not so posh rooms! Still, a bit of luxury compared to the hostels I´ll be staying in later. Decided to be brave and wander around the city to get my bearings with 3 missions in mind: get money, get water, get information. Sensibly memorised the map first so I didn´t have to look like a tourist and ventured off. Found a lovely bit of
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