Boedo Bed & Breakfast Buenos Aires

... has no ventilation and the heat is on full blast which causes for a hot and muggy ride. We get a free dinner with flan though! =)

We arrive in Buenos Aires mid-day and our crew has all their ski gear. We haul it out to the taxi and 4 or 5 taxis pass us up, we´re not going anywhere. Finally two taxis for 40 pesos each will pile us in. They are obviously trying to rip us off so Colin gets fed ...

... in the
air and came down with a BANG. No way could at least one of them not be
hurt after that.



Stopped the trailer and ran back to check, both up and no injuries
but both of them were riding braced out on all four and were looking at
me like WTF are you
DOING??? Dipshit.

... not quite knowing how to spend our last week in Argentina. Promising ourselves we would just have to come back another time to see it, we ruled out going back down south to Patagonia due to the fact that we would spend more time on a bus than we would actually there, and it was by now out of season anyway. So we decided to head to the bus station and just see what buses were going where and hop on the first that sounded agreeable. Jamie had already expressed his desire for ...

... Therefore had a wander around markets am, hoping to catch sight of locals in traditional dress - were a few guys with baggy white shirts & bloomers tucked into their ankle boots but no women in embroidered capes - did pick up some vanilla, the best in mexico apparently. El Tajin had a nice jungle setting and a few impressive buildings - the famous Building of Niches with a unique style with, of course, niches ...

... sur les pyramides memorable. Tout cela agremente d'un temascal traditionnel, il s agit d un hammam indien qui est sense purifier le corps et l ame, mais a notre surprise nous nous sommes fait fouetter tout nus avec des branches par une mama indienne une fois rentre dans le tipi.... experience originale... Enfin avant de reprendre la route nous avons eu un cours de yoga, qui nous a bien fait comprendre que la souplesse ca se travaille !!!

... were early, but I thought our driver might have arrived already. So I plopped Kyla with the bags by a post and circulated among the crowds, staring at all the signs. But none had my name. So I stayed with the bags while Kyla searched. Still nothing. We took turns a few more times ... till it was almost an hour after our flight was supposed to arrive. I said, "Let's give up. I'll go to the bank, get some cash, then we'll take a cab into town, and I'll argue with ...

... we were always careful that they were identified as radio taxis and had a meter and driver identification before entering. · Restaurant reservations were made by our concierge. I thought we were going to do that ourselves, hence the need for a cell phone in BA, but the phone was not used for that purpose because the Art Suites had Sergio, our concierge. · We brought far more clothing than we needed. Based on the ...

... American barbecue, ask for a sample of the popular marinade and seasoning known as chimichurri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichurr i - it certainly adds to the flavour of the meat. Of course I couldn´t sit at the table all afternoon and at 4pm, aftering farewelling my host Jorge, I continued on my walk around the town. Walking past the Street of Sighs (where the name comes from, no body knows, some say it is ...

... as spectacular. The site was used by Totanac's, still the local people today. These are famous for the Voladores rite, originally carried out only once a year. They perform this daily at this site and it consists of five men in traditional costume doing a dance around a 30 metre high pole. Once this is done they climb to the top of the pole, one of them stands on the top of the pole playing a flute and drum whilst the others attach themselves to ropes and ...

... there. They were very keen on counting and learning numbers and when I had one particularly lively group the blackboard and chalk (the resources we were provided with) were abandoned and we resorted ...