Mansilla 3935 B&B Buenos Aires

Tuesday morning (3rd Nov) and I had to set about finding the bike!! Still no word from Iberia Cargo so I decide to call James Cargo. Julie sends through the details of the contact and address. Next step is to call Sandra from Dakar Motos, who is straight into help mode. She asks for the Bill of Lading number and some other details and says she will call them. Sandra also wants to see me at 6pm to go over what will happen at the Airport the next day. Sandra tells me I ...

... the intrepid posse set out on Sunday <br>to go see some graves. It was another sunny day in BA and they decided to take a diversion <br>via the street market in San Telmo which Duncan and Nadine had visited the previous weekend. <br><br>"Hold that pose Nadine" called Duncan from 20 feet away "I want to test my new 12x optical zoom on your face". And so followed a whole sequence of boring photos of close-ups on <br>whatever ...

... to a quiet room out back. We met a Welsh guy and his Kiwi girlfriend and got drunk at the Gibraltar English pub which has pictures of Paris all over the walls and absolutely no apparent connection to England, or Gibraltar for that matter. We went for a long walk the next day to get rid of the hangover in the wildlife reserve the other side of the old port, land which was filled in to extend the city but then left to nature to take over. It was cool, wetlands with tons of birds ...

... right) and aparently every hour a life sized jesus comes out of a mountain at the back of the place. Just sounds seriously weird but should be a laugh. Not much else planned might see bout buyin some clothes for oz as there quite cheap and the gear box of most of my pants are wearin thin at the mo. Wel prob fit in a night or 2 out before we leave and might try put up a few pics of some of our drunkeness for yer amusement if I get a chance. Our next entry will be in oz.

... X two walls per corridor)! Needless to say, I was very disappointed. Until, I accidentally bumped into people in the hostel that were going to a tour organized by guides advertized by the hostel. I asked if I could join and they said sure. And thank god I did! By then I had spent ten days in BA with a trickle of information about this country's history. The guides were marvelous! http://www ...

... The tango show provided chauffeured service to and from the tango show so we did not have to worry about a designated driver. A delightful couple we met on the cruise, Alta and Paul Nickle, joined us at the tango show. It was evident from the get-go that this tango show was perhaps a cut above the rest. We received a personal greeting upon arrival and were treated to Champaign with fresh peach juice by tuxedoed waiters. The ...

... making contact..perhaps the most entertaining of all. We saw a movie last night (Yes Man, or "Si Senor") at the theater in Recoleta. As it was a Sunday night, the theater wasn't too crowded for the 8:20 showing...but to our surprise, by the time we walked out of the show at 10:15, the place was packed, with people waiting in long lines to get in. This was a Sunday night! People definitely stay out later here. This morning we went ...

... are glad that they went now and they appear to be roughly our same age. Okay, food for thought! Usually, we have at least one trip planned beyond the one we are on. But not this time. Harvey and I are both unsure of where we want to go and when. We are not sure if we want to do touring, a combination of city and nature as on this trip, or an extended stay of maybe a month at one location (and what ...

... After sitting down in the stands, with the sharp dressed crowd, we realized we had absolutely no idea what the rules were or what was going on. A very friendly American with friends on one of the teams helped us through the rules and was great at explaining who the players were and how a Polo team operates for a game. Amazingly each player will have up to 16 horses for a competitive match, so each team will need around 70 ...

... soon speeding across town towards La Boca.<br><br>It became immediately obvious that the "fluent English guide" that we'd paid for had about 10 words of English, but we figured that you don't need someone to talk you through a football game so this shouldn't be too much of a problem!<br><br>We parked some way from the ground, but ...