Cypress In B&B Buenos Aires

All this luxuriating can be exhausting. I'm currently having a lie down between breakfast and a visit to the spa. A brief breather in an otherwise exhaustive schedule. The past couple of days have passed in a similar vein, interspersed with pleasant jollies about town. Buenos Aires is a great city to get lost in: we’ve discovered lovely bars and cafés and beautiful walks though the city and along the river. All ...

... Florida Suites hostel. When we got there we stayed our room for a bit and played DS for a bit. After that we went down to the reception were they had free internet access. So I went on the computer for a little while. While I was on the computer I played a game called Dragon fable. Dragon fable is a website were you create an account were you create a guy that fights monsters and stuff like that. Anyway while I was playing that the computer turned ...

... tubes of pure intense flavoured fat…but surprisingly tasty…then we had assado ribs interior cuts of beef and entrada cuts also part of the chest area. Chewy and tasty. And of course a bottle of Malbec. The Argentineans certainly know how to have a Sunday roast….they feast at the weekends. After a coffee we realised we’d taken hours to eat our meal and everybody had left the restaurant apart from some patient waitresses and waiters politely pretending to ...

... we watched the game in a strangely quiet local bar. The closest we came to a soccer match in Argentina was a fantastic tour of the Boca Juniors soccer stadium. Hopefully we will get to see a soccer game in South America further on in our travels. Due to the very strange coin shortage that seems to plague most cities in Argentina, we often had to plan our days around change for the bus. Upon boarding a bus in Buenos Aires you are required to use coins to the pay the fare ...

... onto a coach while a young woman called Vicky guided us round the city over the course of the afternoon. If she wasn't speaking incomprehensible English she was speaking Spanish at the speed of light, which gave us all a bit of amusment. But all the same we enjoyed it. Boca, particularly, was fantastic and don't worry, Dad, I got plenty of photos from inside the staduim.

Thursday's agenda was less formal by orders of magnitude. After a bus, a train and a river boat we disembarked ...

... the shower, where Becky got pooped on twice in the same day by birds and our rough wine trail bike ride. When we look back though, we do laugh about our bad luck. We did have some fun times in this town and most importantly, we met some really great people at our hostel.

Favorite experiences?
Macho Picchu & Climbing to the top of Mount Wiaupicchu (the steep mountain peak in all Macho Picchu postcards).
The hot springs in Agua Caliente.
Visiting the ...

... mere 20 or so hour bus ride!!) Ben will be adding a funny entry from a crazy night out in the Palmero neighborhood with our host El Mehdi!! For those interested, we'll make another post soon with prices of most items in Buenos Aires, so you can plan your own trip to this beautiful, hot, and exciting city.