We had just spent the last 5 months escaping the cold drineary European winter by exploring Cuba, Mexico and Central America with some short stops in the US to visit friends. Now the weather was warming up in Europe it was time to be like a Canadian Goose and fly north again. Our last stop in the America's was Boston where we spent a few days staying with a friends and meeting up with an old University chum that I hadn't seen since graduation so that was a spin out!. Saying goodbye to Boston we take the 7 hour flight with Norwegian to land in Gatwick the next morning. I didn't sleep at all, its not the best airline for a good nights sleep so arrived very tired and grumpy. We picked up our hire car ... read more

I had woken around 1am in the morning and stayed awake for a few hours before finally drifting off again, it was obvious I wasn't going to escape jet-lag. When we woke the next day it was midday, suffice to say we had missed the free breakfast! We headed out to find ourselves some lunch of tasty empanadas. San Telmo had a reputation of being a bit on the dodgy side, especially at night but what we saw we really liked, a neighborhood of character, rather hip with lots of cafe's, nice restaurants, it reminded us of Fitzroy back in Melbourne. Here the architecture was old Spanish Colonial and the streets cobbled, its also the place to come to see street Tango and this was something I definitely wanted to see. We stumbled across the indoor ... read more