Milhouse Hostel Buenos Aires

Got the boat from Uruguay to BA. Spent over two weeks here. Had a great time. Plenty partying. Went to a Boca Juniors game. Far better than the game in Rio. Unreal atmosphere. Did a week's Spanish course. Stayed in the Clan and Milhouse. Parted company with the English boys but were re-united with Andy and Dave from Floripa. Saw the sights. Weather not great. Flying to Ushuaia today.

So we arrived in Buenos Aires after a 17 hour bus journey during which we were given some digusting catfood type sausage think with an egg in the middle and ice cold red wine and were sat next to the air conditioner unit and the toilet so we couldn´t hear the films and it stank. Got off the bus and managed to navigate our way to the Subte on which we met an Aussie guy called Dingo who ended up checking into the Milhouse with us. The Milhouse was not what we expected after a few people had rai...

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Touchdown! we in BA baby - just in time for a Saturday night! We tried to get a bus to the hostel from the airport but trying to ask the grumpiest bus driver in the WORLD, how much we pay, where we get off etc, we jumped off and grabbed a cab with the grumpiest cab driver in the world (is every transport official in BA grumpy?). So, he pulls up on the dingy street saying here we are and we´re looking at it like... wha´?? But turns out we were there. the hostel was this tiny door that opened i...

I arrived in Buenos Aires with the intention of learning spanish, and within 5 hours of arriving I was in a classroom conjugating verbs. I got off my overnight bus from Mendoza and got the Subte to Avenida de Mayo in the heart of the city, there seemed to be a good smattering of hostels and this area, and not having booked anything I guessed that one would be able to house me for a night or to. Exiting the Subte it started raining so I headed to the nearest hostel in my LP, which was Millhous...

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