Blogs from Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 3

Balade dans le quartier la boca. On est allé avec un étudiant suisse-francais de la classe d'Elena. On était bien contente qu'il soit avec nous parce que c'est un quartier ou il faut seulement rester dans la partie touristique. C'est un quartier qui est devenu hyper touristique grâce aux facades colorées des maisons. C'est aussi un quartier pauvre de Buenos Aires, d'ou l'importance de rester dans la zone touristique. Initially we were planning to visit the modern museum but on location found out that it was under renovation, so instead we followed south passing Russian Orthodox church and finally reaching la Boca. La Boca was created by the settlement of italian immigrants. Its a pretty neat place with tango dancers of every restaurant patio and multitude of little shops. Getting there was the most interesting part ... read more

Geo: -34.5843, -58.5251Up at 5:45 AM for the early train to the Tigre Delta. For a tour, you'd think it'd be a little more luxurious, in terms of sleeping in, but this is as rough as my backpacking trips! Breakfast was skipped, and we piled into a bunch of taxis bound for the train station.Ranjit made an interesting observation - he told Wade and I that last night he had been casually gazing out their room's window (which happens to be on the opposite of the courtyard from ours, one floor up), and commented on Wade's habit of brushing his teeth in his underwear. "I feel sorry for you ...", he told me! I dunno ... this whole "Cult of Wade" thing is getting out of hand ... we suspected that Ranjit was stealthily lurking behind ... read more

A day in Tigre After sleeping in to 'recover” from a week of learning and socializing last night (I could not believe how many people get all dressed up for Halloween even here, loco!) I made pancakes for the family! Yeah a real breakfast! I had brought a packet of pancake mix and maple syrup as a little “typical American breakfast” gift for the family and so Cristina asked me to show her how to make them. What a good start to the weekend! In the afternoon I met one of the teachers who wanted to join me on a short trip to Tigre, and so we met downtown and took the train to this city approx. 35 miles outside of B's A's in the river delta. Tigre is one of the most popular weekend get-aways ... read more

We awoke at 0730 and had planned to go to Boca District to see if we could get tickets to Sunday afternoons Boca Juniors v Estudiantes game but bumped in to a couple of blokes who seemed to think that they would not be on sale until game day. Plan B was to take a 50 minute train ride to Tigre, a town north of Buenos Aires that lies on Delta del Paraná. It turned out to be a good decision. We took the Subte to Retiro then boarded a train to Tigre 50 minutes for $1.10 (NZ$0.55)! The hub of the town is Puerto de Frutos a huge market but (this being Argentina) nothing was opened when we got there around 10am. The Argentines don’t seem to do anything until midday so we walked a ... read more

Well, I suppose it would be fitting to talk about this weekend. I spent a large chunk of it outside of the city, and now that I think about it this was the first time I’ve left since Iguazú, which now that I think about it was only a month ago. Lots of sudden realizations here. That’s all of course as long as you don’t count the few minutes that I spent on the other side of avenida General Paz when I went to Mataderos. You all can figure that out for yourselves. So this weekend officially started, I guess, on Saturday (though Friday may as well have been a weekend day as well). Regardless though, I “awoke,” meaning I opened my eyes and gave up the night-long struggle to fall asleep, at 7:40 and checked ... read more