Day 5 - Domingo It's market day in San Telmo.  Defenca and many of its side streets are packed with vendors and buskers of all sorts, including full tango bands with upright pianos .  I walk over and pick up Jordan and Ralph and they want to go to, where else?  Disnevils.  I can't resist and...

Camino hasta la puerta; el vuelo está demorado otra vez. Otra vez fuera de los parámetros, las fronteras... Una vez que haces migraciones, estás legalmente fuera del país, así que la sala de embarque es "tierra de nadie"!!! Un espacio sin tiempo donde ya me he habituado a estar. Soy la autentica pasajera en transito de Charly G. Hace poco me di ...

Buenos Aires is often described by visitors as an extremely European city, whatever that means. Indeed, the large boulevards, the tree lined streets and the incredible number of restaurants and cafe´give this South American city a very "First World" feel (again, whatever that means). This is obviously just the surface, but you can see how most t...

It´s been just 10 days since I left home now.  Thought I was going to be a bit homesick but not one bit so far and loving every single second of it. It´s such a strange but amazing feeling to think that I´ve a whole 9 months of this ahead of me.. yeah!! Buenos Aires is such a cool city.  It´s definitely got a Spanish feel to it (bit li...

As I have mentioned before the Argentinian girls are beautiful, but I have kept wondering how they manage to stay so slim and trim. There is just so much good food here, but all the girls are tiny!  Then on Monday night it clicked... we were sitting in a Parilla (steak house) and I was tucking into my second bread roll w...

Well we are coming to the end of our first week in Argentina and apart from the constant rain every day it has been enjoyable! Our Spanish lessons are coming along nicely although they are pretty intense. Feels like we´re back at school.  Our teacher Cecilia is very lively and full of energy but also patient with our mis-pronunciations and ...

We were in B.A. for 3 days and explored one of the nicest cities we have ever seen.The buildings ,archeticture and the whole city was an incredible experience. We have the luck to stay at the Concorde Hotel on DE MAYO street that has a great location and has treated us just great.From getting a doctor that came to our room for nothing and trying...

Go to the Summary Page ___________________________ I had spent a couple of days going around BsAs with Jess the ozzie loco chick, we had a good time. And I was, at last, with a carnivore (I had met only vegetarians for the past week), and I could open the last tin of Foie Gras that my mum had sent me... half of it on bread with sweet white ...

yup.......... still here.........so we`re way behind in the journaling part of this... however, we have muchas tareas to complete before tomorrow`s clase de español. as you can see we are fluent. the previous buenos aires entry has been updated as of thursday, pee guy has had some new adventures, and this one will be fixed shotrly. and for the r...

We have a picnic in the botanical gardens of Buenos Aires but it's not very enjoyable. We are limited to about a third of the available space because two seperate photo shoots and the filming of a movie are taking place. The park is also home to hundreds of scrounging cats. Eating salami sandwiches under the scrutiny of dozens of evil feline eye...