Blogs from Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 399

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

Hi everyone, Its a shame to say but another year has passed and im still living the dream!!! In a quaint little beach town called mar del plata, which for you dummards who dont speak two languages fluently like me is translated to sea of silver.... Hardly cause the sea here looks like toilet water from bubba-joes crapper in the d-block, but we have to make do with what we have RIGHT??? No its a great town just not what i expected, i was hoping for small little island town with sandy roads and dogs running around everywhere with crystal waters and well you get me, and got big city with more people in it than people that queue outside of Kazachstans only mcdonalds. So we have had a few great nights here and now its ... read more

Our first visit to Argentina, we saw the towns of San Telmo, ....... We watched Tango, tasted the bitter matte (that EVERYONe drinks) We then ventured to Uruguary, hit 2 cities...... read more

Navigates his way around the world then gets lost in a backyard blog!....I found the problem!...I backdated that blog "The Pear-shaped Puzzle" and its back in the pack at 2nd Dec. Ooops. But thanks to all the responses...its sort of gratifying to know there are so many of you still folowing the trail. But for those of you saving it for some verification later, well, that's another story...I mean some of these things have actually happened, some have happened to others, some have happened in my head.....some might have happened...I don't think any of them have maliciously not happened.....and over time some may happen in the future..my only aim is to try and paint the picture of whats going thru' my hhead at any given point of time ..and hope you an share the vision...its not ... read more

Lost Blog!!....Trusting you all had an agreable Xmas and recover in time for the end-of-year bash...but this is serious!...the last blog was 22 December, called 'the pear-shaped puzzle' it was there and I have some comments back already but now its gone! I've even checked the lost blogs' home but no joy! The fantastic travelblog people are working on recovering it but I'm wondering if anyone had the foresight to download it to their computer?...if so I would be very grateful to get it back!...as you might know, I never keep a backup and rarely even re-read them so I can't go back and do it again!......however, now I have my little lappo, courtesy of Ted's trip to the states, I shall be doing them on this and keeping a copy... And I only need the ... read more