Martinas House Buenos Aires

... of people sleeping rough all over the city here, and the metro system is very old, as are are the buses. Much of the city looks very dated itself, but that is a big part of its charm as its ogreat for the archecture lovers. Much of the colonial style buildings still stand in various states of repair, and many are lovingly restored. Its all very European feeling but less compact, with a 16 lane street right through the centre of town. We both feel far ...

... anglais. Tous les antiquaires sont plutot impressionnants et on peut rester des heures à seuleument se balader parmis les stands. Nous dejeunons d'enormes pieces de viande grillee dans un bistrot de quartier et redescendons au sud vers le quartier de La Boca. Ce quartier ouvrier est le quartier populaire par excellence qui regroupait historiquement la main d'oeuvre immigree (espagnole et italienne) de l'industrie bouchere argentine. Les ...

... in Mexico where we will head directly after our short surprise visit to Florida next week. Late afternoon we decided to treat Jody and Niamh to a trip to the cinema to see "La Era de Hielo 3" (Ice age 3). I told everyone I knew where the cinema was and after the launderette we briskly marched for about 20 minutes to where I had seen the cinema, only to find what I had actually seen was a café called 'Cinema'. Jody and Niamh circled me like Velocer ...

... a very different and highly enjoyable evening try a "closed door" restaurant. This is essentially a dinner party in someones house that you pay to join. I went to the most well known in BA - Casa Saltshaker run by chef and food writer Dan Perlman and his partner Henry. Dan is a really friendly guy, an excellent chef and very knowledgeable on the local food scene. Its very reasonable (AR$100 or AR$150 inc wine depending on the night) and you ...

Bus Films Argentinian buses are amazing with comfortable reclining seats and pot luck food in plactic trays and they show you movies whether you like it or not. These are frequently bootlegged, terrible quality and they cut out at the most suspiciously ironic moments. On the way to B.A. we saw four films without a single conclusion. Everyone cut out in the last fifteen minutes. We recently saw a film called Gameplan for the fifth time. Of all the things ...

... crazy late. Families are out with their kids eating ice-cream at 2 in the morning. Kids of 3 or 4 years old. Absolutely nuts and not like it anywhere else. We leave the club at about 8:30 in the morning after practising some drunken Tango moves on the locals and showing some Argie girls a few Irish dancing moves. Very corny but you got to try something. Argie girls are difficult nuts to crack with those from BA being notoriously difficult (you were right on that score ...

... P Anyway, Bs. As.. The buildings here are huge, much like New York, so everywhere you go it feels like you have no clue where you are on account of not being able to see the next block. Everythign here is measured in quadros (blocks) here instead of km. As in: I live 40 blocks from here. But as blocks tend to be 100 numbers it´s reasonably easy to figure out (40 quadros is faaaar). There are also so many completely different architectural styles everywhere mixed about. It makes it ...

... to me "This door doesn't open?" I just glared at him. I wondered if Ha had her camera ready, to snap a picture of me smearing this dumb ass's face across the glass door. B&H finally emerge, and I gesture to them "Let's get the hell out of here" and surprisingly, the panhandler didn't follow! Puerto Madero is a still-developing, but upscale neighbourhood. There was a nice selection of contemporary restaurants with expensive ...

... parets pintades, gent que manifesta la seva opinió, de tots els partits polítics, i tendències. Així com també a la Pl. de Mayo hi ha pintures al terra, enmig de la plaça. Passem per c/ Libertad -res d'especial, forces hotels-. Ens aturem a pl. de la República. Prop hi ha el teatre més important, el Teatro Colón. Hi ha parcs, totes les avingudes tenen abres... fa caloreta... l'hora de dinar anem a un restaurant recomenat L'Estancia. Una bona parrilla! Que no ens la podem acabar ...

... would have brightened up a dull spectacle where no real urgency was shown, except when River's goalkeeper berated the referee at the final whistle after conceding a last minute penalty that cost them the game. Football as always can definitely make you forget about the outside world . As Bill Shankly said 'Some say football is about life or death, I say its about more than that.' A bit extreme maybe but watching a game in the comfort of a football ...