Sunday was another sunny and bright day in BA... lucky for us. Our plan today was to hit up San Telmo and wander around after that. We planned our route the day before...take the D line subte to the 9 de Julio station and then switch to line C and ride it to Independencia station. From there it was a few blocks walk to Plaza Dorrego in San Telmo, where they have the Sunday Feria (flea market type of event). It's a huge tourist attraction, but seemed like locals go there as well to shop. Tourists are there mostly to see the spectacle of street performers and to people watch I assume....that's what we wanted to go for anyway. On our way to the Bulnes station for the subte, we stopped at Hausbrot bakery by the ... read more

Well, we made it to beautiful Iguazu Falls, and after 2 days of touring it, we're beat and ready to go back to Buenos Aires. What an amazing trip though! I read so much about the falls before coming, from fellow bloggers and all, and no matter how people describe them, nothing compares to seeing it for yourself. There were many highlights to our 1.5 days at the Iguazu National Park, but the best was the fact that there were literally a million different angles to view the various falls and each view was breathtaking. We were lucky to hit really good weather...in the 60s and 70s. For winter here in the Southern Hemisphere, that's unusual, but we'll take it! It was cloudy, but the sun was breaking thru at various parts of the day. Shel ... read more

Arhentina- Arhentina-Arhentina :) (no, I didn't misspell it...Shel knows what I'm talking about) After months of planning, we're finally in Argentina! Though I had been looking for apartments/hotels for many weeks, we didn´t actually book one until just a few days before we left Austin...many of our first choices were already booked by that time, but we were lucky to find one on Craig´s List that fit in our budget. Our trip from the states was not too shabby...10 hours on a plane is tiring, not to mention boring, but other than that, no real problems at all. Since it was a night flight, we tried to sleep most of the way. We arrived at the Buenos Aires airport around 9am on 8/18 (Monday), which happened to be a holiday here. The EZE airport is interesting...on ... read more