Juku's House
Travel Blogs from San Isidro
Day 16 - Buenos Aires - Argentina
... absolutely devine, tender and plenty for the both of us. Considering the portion we all managed to finish our meal and had room to share a homemade flan with dulce de leche - yum and definitely was in food heaven. The bill was too bad as it came to 840 pesos for the four of us including 2 bottle of wine, all that food and dessert. I have a feeling this will be the last decent meal I will be having until get home so I am glad I ended with ...
A bit more of BA
... most exhibits were her dresses, hats and handbags.
She died at such young age (33) from cancer. Tragic.
Another delicious empanada lunch in the park and we were totally content. :)
We had to rush back to the hotel for our first group meeting at 3pm.
Challenged ourself to use the tube this time which turned out to be dead easy.
Interesting grafitties covered most of the ...
Hanging on the telephone
... are loads down this street, Florida, as it is the main tourist strip. They lurk at the side of the road discreetly reading the paper of smoking a fag and every now and then say "cambio, cambio" obviously they have to say it pretty loud so people can hear. It is a bit of a farce really because clearly the police know. The black market is the done thing round here apparently and everyone does it. However we are on the straight and narrow, it just seems too dodgy.
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Bife de Lomo & Sunsets in Puerto Madero
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During class this past week we discussed American politics, wine, holiday customs in our respective countries, and the SIDA (sindrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida—or, AIDS) prevention programs in Argentina and abroad. After learning a variety of verb tenses last week, this week was slower paced and more focused on writing with those verb tenses and reviewing them with oral practice.
We also discussed ...
July 16, 2012
... its here". Eventually someone points out the stop and we wait for the bus. As a side note to the story, during our walk Shana wanted to stop and draw cash for the bus tickets- I told her "Dont worry, I'm sure we can pay by card". Jubilation as we get onto the bus. Divorce papers as we watch it ride away- they didn't take cards. We take a taxi back to the hotel and sleep off the jet lag and death wishes for the rest of the afternoon. At this point I must ...