Moana Bed and Breakfast Buenos Aires

I get breakfast at my regular cafe and go to the internet cafe to catch up.<br>When I get back to Dakar Motos an Austrailian, Greg has arrived on his BMW 800GS. He has just completed a fairly fast trip from Alaska to Ushuaia, less than 4 months, and has a slipping clutch. He will be shipping to Oz in a couple of weeks.<br ...

... old mother who is very sweet. She has three daughters who are all married and each have a child under the age of 18 months who are all adorable!! One of the daughters and her husband have given me several recommendations of places I have to go in the city and out, bars, restaurants, stores, wines to try, heladerias (ice cream places) that I must try (I will get back to this later!). Anyway, they are super sweet and I kind of want to move in with ...

... where she is buried with her family but not her husband, the main street which is the widest in the world---20 lanes of traffic with a magnificent Obelisc in the center, a poor imitation of the DC Capitol building ...

... currency-denominated short-term debt was pumped into the country at alarming rates. Issuance of Argentina government bonds dwarfed the rest of the developing world sovereign debt by huge amounts. In hindsight, it is just ludicrous, but so is the housing boom of the last five years. While the outside world was lending Argentina massive amounts of money, the central government was making Argentine peso-denominated long ...

... peace. They are great. The UK representative is draped in the Union Jack, the Irish bear is clearly enjoying a good night out &amp; the US Statue of Liberty style bear is distinguishable for afar. Check out the pics &amp; the link below &amp; hope they come to a city near you soon ..... http://www.buddy-baer.com/united-buddy- bears/idea/overview.html

... a major symbol of BA. On the two pedestrian streets, La Valle and Florida, we fought our way through business people, tourists, street vendors and - performers, past leather, cashmere and souvenir shops. As long as you keep your wits about where your wallet is at all times - you're fine. Plaza de Mayo is surrounded by beautiful buildings of historic importance; like the Cathedral Metropolitano - which contains the tomb of the liberator Jose de San Martin, Argentina's ...

... down south. The second visit in 1982 pre-emanated the Falklands War with Britain. Oh no! In Basil Fawlty style, don't mention the war! Having grown up in the UK at time of the Falklands, my memories are of newspapers with 60 point font page headlines and news footage of big ships going down, but I never really delved deeper to find out what it was all about. Surprisingly, most Argentines I met are not overly fussed by the whole ordeal. Owing to their remote southern latitude and ...

... Oh another thing....while we had been away they had finished work on the outside terrace where they would be having the barbecue and party that evening. The price of the party was 90 pesos, or 18 pounds, though for this price you had all you can eat barbecue and all the drinks you want, it is expensive, very expensive by Argentine standards, but we were told that lots of money had been spent and it would be great etc. Well, it was good no doubt about that ...

... first priority of the day was to purchase yet another camera, our third one this trip. Needing a 'point &amp; shoot' that is water resistant for such places as the Amazon and Iguaçu we went to the Alto Palermo mall to buy this. The best thing about it is that we were well rewarded for shopping at this mall. When you spend over a certain value you get a free bottle of champagne so we happily walked away with 2 bottles - now this feels more like Christmas! Sunday is the day to ...

... the next one started. (It was a bit pathetic that they wouldn't let us join the group that had just left) <br><br>At least this gave us the perfect reason for buying tickets to the Boca Museum, which was ...