Blogs from Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 398

Since we had expected many more comments from you, we have decided to offer a brand new argentinian original mate mug (see picture) to the one that will post the major number of posts in our blog. Actually at some point the quality of the post may become important... and anyway it will be us that will decide who the winner is. I know this is strongly antidemocratic...but you know the world is not just. Anyway write!! Ciao ragazzi, ci aspettavamo molti piu' commenti... siamo un po' delusi. Ok, vi potete ancora rifare. Anzi per rendere il tutto un po' piu' competitivo abbiamo deciso di mettere in palio un mate nuovo fumante (vedi foto) a chi fara´piu´commenti (ok la qualita' e´anche importante, e comunque alla fine decidiamo noi...). Provateci!!... read more

We have made it to Buenos Aries safe and sound despite the fact that ten minutes before we boarded our plane to South America I got a call from becki saying they could no longer meet us and it would be less complicated if we found our way from the airport to them and she gave an address to the hotel and said hope to see you after you land...hee hee. The hardest part was that our planes flew in an hour apart from eachother so we had to find eachother in the airport..that was fun. But Janine and I found that if you stare blankly at someone they will start to speak enlish after a few moments..so it was not that bad. The hotel the girls landed is perfect, it is right in the middle ... read more

Just after New Year I headed to Buenos Aires. With hardly anyone on the double level bus, I got the chance to ride up front with the bus drivers. There, drinking Mate with Sprite, listening to Reggaeton to stay awake, and to my disbelief, tossing all of the trash out the window to the beautiful countryside, they tried to convince me that bus drivers are expert road warriors. Even though they had not had a day off in 42 days, and slept less than four hours per night on a tiny bed under the bus, they could easily make out the light signals from other drivers on the road at night. Double flashing lights coming towards you means that there is an oncoming car in your lane; two left blinks from the vehicle in front of ... read more

From Montevideo we headed to Buenos Aires for New Year, where we met up with a friend Chico who we’d met at Iguaçu Falls. The people of Buenos Aires seem akin to vampires, eating at midnight, heading out at about 3a.m and then partying till way past breakfast. The climate in Buenos Aires was fantastic, beautiful blue skies and baking hot Sun. We had about a week to enjoy the city and got to explore quite a lot of it, mainly on James’ magical mystery tours which were always good fun. One such wandering took us the area of La Boca, home of Tango, painted houses and the Boca Junior’s stadium. We toured the stadium, which was pretty disappointing really. It was quite dilapidated and smaller than expected, though I think filled with 70,000 odd ... read more

Ahh, what a fabulous city this is…….haven’t felt so at home anywhere for a long time, if you’ve got to live in a city then this is probably iit! My little friend was telling me the other night about a giant frog that lives around here and it has teeth!..Well, I couldn't just let that go past, frogs don't have teeth I replied. Then it was on...all sorts of memories, anecdotes, we had the wait staff at the bar involved, later, taxi drivers, bystanders, people on the street. She had a definite advantage, she speaks espanol, so she could ask the question and filter the answers..I understand enough about espanol and also arguments with women to let it go! We live on Esmeralda Street…now doesn’t that conjure up visions of classy, glittering elegance…the reality is a ... read more