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Published: December 8th 2008
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Hi everyone ,
We have decended on South America and it is soooo hot it is like another world.
It was a long journey here so it could be another world but the people look pretty human so i think we are still on earth.
The one thing that i was hoping would not go wrong on the journey over was that the TV would not be working. I know you will all say , that if the plane crashed it would be worse but there is no point in thinking about that as i wouldn't be here to tell you that my bloody TV didn't work and worse of all it was so bright it was a light shinning in my face for 12hrs. Ok thats my rant over. The flight was packed and now i know why. Everyone was getting away from that horrible cold and boy they came in the right direction.
Our spainish is being tested from the very beginning and i have to say between both of us we are managing very well. We haven't gone hungry in fact we have been eating very well. Maybe too well as the food is delicious and good portionjs
but it is very hard to work off so many calories in this heat. I'm hoping that heat burns off some or else i may end up being twice the woman i am now.
We are staying in a hotel actually which was a surprice to us as we thought we were going to be in a hostel but if we had read the little paragraph that was written about it in the lonely planet we would have read hotel. Anyway it is actually ok. We have our own shower and toilet and table and tv so what more could you ask for at 60 pesos a night(15 euro) In the backpackers next door it is 75 pesos a night for a bunk bed. I think we drew the long straw Ha Ha.
We are staying around San Telmo district which is very nice and friendly. Yesterday there was abig antiques market on in the square and there were professional tango dancers performing whcih a real taste of argintine.
We were very tired after the flight so we didn't do much last night. Actually we went to bed at about 6. Lame i know but hey i needed my beauty
sleep.
This morning we got up early enough 7ish and went for breakfast down the street, where i got an amazing omlette. We set off then foe a grave yard. You say a graveyard i know but Evita herself was buried there. We jumped on the metro and headed off to the graveyard. We got there and boy it was massive. There are many ways to be buried here in argintina it seems. The richer of the people are not buried underground but in elaborate rooms built from mardel adn stane and stuff but you can see the coffins and they go a long way down too. So you can fit generation after generation into them. So back to finding Evita. Well we went on a walk that was marked on the map and followed it around but things were not right. We were looking around and it seemed to be getting a bit doggy aroung with alot of rubbish and not so many people. So i told Joost that if i die it is his fault cause he wanted to do this walk. So we upped the speed and got the hell out of there and back to the
graveyard. Still no Evita you say. I KNOW! So it was getting to lunch time and there were two cafes/ resturants marked on the map so we tried to find them. We walked and then we were lost again. These maps are shit we both say. Lets just go back to San Telmo and get some lunch. On the way back to the metro there was pizza place so we went in and got a uber pizza( thats very big for anyone who dosen't hang around my younger brother) and so we sat and ate some of this pizza and checked out where we went wrong with the map. And the it happened Joost found the solution. We were at the wrong graveyard and we were going all over the place in the wrong place. Great! It dosen't give much hope for the future but it cannot get any worse.
Well i will sign off here and hope to be in touch soon with better map reading skills and a bit better spainish. Adious mi amigos y amigas. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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frisse-achterhoek
Hoi Joost-Gill erg leuk jullie eerste side met pracht verhaal en foto's te bewonderen. Bedankt voor de felicitaties en geniet van jullie welverdiende reis! liefs-kisses paps -mams