Blogs from Argentina, South America - page 1080

Completed my first week at school and it´s all gone pretty well. I´m not exactly fluent yet but, I am starting to understand a lot more of what people are saying to me. Did a walking tour of the city on Thursday, it´s a beautiful place. But, more importantly, the guide offered to take me to see Boca juniors (Argentina´s biggest football club) play on Sunday. Waiting for a mail at the mo to confirm the arrangements- I hope it comes off. I had my first real night out last night and am paying for it today. Everything starts so late here, it´s difficult to get used to. I finished my dinner in a restaurent at 11 and got to the bar I was heading for around 12, it was empty!! People started arriving between 2 ... read more

Hello chaps, i have decided that i need to start a new blog entry before i forget what i have been doing for the last month. Life on the road has been really busy and i keep finding out about cool new things to do. I last left you having finished the torres del paine circuit and having a big night out to celebrate. The next day i headed off to punta arenas which the best thing i can say about is it was better than puerto natales. It is right at the southern end of chile, and the towns down here on the chilean side are all a bleak collection of houses with tin roofs. Punta arenas however was once a quite rich city as it controlled the passage around cape horn. Therefore it has ... read more

Well A trip finally materailized for last Saturday, I went hiking and it was good to get out of the city. I went with the same person from the school who has tryed to organize several other trips that he cancelled but this one finally happened. I arrived at the school at 8:30 am and there were three other students in the car. Two were from the other big language school here and one was from my school. The two women were from Belgium and spoke French. The guy was England. The guy and one of the girls were living in the same residental house here in Cordoda. They were exhaused and we had not even begun the trip. But this trip for them was only a continuation of the night before. They arrived home from ... read more

There were no roses or candy this Valentine´s day. Griff and I woke up in the morning, walked across the room to the other from our tiny twin beds, wished each other a Happy Valentine´s Day, and headed to the bus station for our seven hour bus ride to Punta Arenas. The trip was only a portion of our voyage to the end of the earth, Ushuaia, which is on the southern tip of South America. It is one heck of a journey, requiring us to head inland from Argentina, cross the border into Chile, hop another bus from Chile back into Argentina, and drive another twelve hours with a transfer between one junky buss to another. (Each buss gets squishier and older the farther you go.) Most of the twelve hour ride is over gravel ... read more

Hallo ihr Alle, nach unserem traumhaften Aufenthalt auf der Estancia Peuma Hue (dazu mehr in einem anderen Blog) sind wir nun wieder zurueck in San Carlos de Bariloche, der Schweiz Suedamerikas. Und die schweizerischen bzw. deutschen Spuren sind nicht nur im Stadtbild immer wieder zu entdecken, sondern auch in kulinarischer Hinsicht: Leckere Schokolade gibt es hier in allen Variationen und auch das Kaesefondue fehlt nicht auf den Speisekarten. Auch ansonsten ist Bariloche eine wunderschoene Stadt am Lago Nahuel Huapi, umgeben von Bergen, Bergen, Bergen und See, Seen, Seen. Auch weiterhin begleitet uns das schoene Wetter und so haben wir bei ausgiebigen Spaziergaengen Bariloche und seine Umgebung erkundet & am Seeufer gesessen, bevor wie uns fuer unseren Estanciaufenthalt bei einer richtigen Shoppingtour neu eingekleidet haben... Hier aber vorerst mal Fotos ... read more