My little travel bubble has kept me quite contained for the past couple of days and i have neglected to write, although I am sure the novelty of keeping a daily diary may soon wear down to a weekly diary! Still, there will be many weeks to write about. So yesterday we visited the Recolletta district of Buenos Aires, heading to the famous cemeter...

I forgot to mention... My camera died at the cementary, and so I didn't get a photo. But, there was the most beautiful inscription. I know you're all going to think I've gone batty and am opening a romance shop with romantic movies, flowers, chocolates and love vouchers...but seriously, this was one of the most unique incriptions I saw and the g...

We set off excited to explore this most European of south American cities. I led us off confidently towards Recoleta, the area where Eva Peron is buried. However, after 25 minutes we realised we were in an area called "Constitucion", which is very close to La Boca, and in the opposite direction of Recoleta! Our lonely planet book said catch buse...

Here we are in Buenos Aires a long way away and we have instant communication. I am upstairs in the rooftop bar of our hostel with free internet and a basically qwerty keyboard. Our trip was long, especially the 11 or so hours at JFK. However we got here and we are fine. We slept for over 12 hours last night. Today we took a bus tour and then wa...

So as I sit here contemplating my day, I can only think of one thing: There are even more cats than mullets. House cats or I guess used-to-be house cats that have either A)escaped B)are really strays in disguise or C)are small tigers run rampant through a park near my residence. And I don't mean that there are just a lot of cats there, it is a p...

I would totally advise anyone to head down to Argentina! I had a complete blast living there. I was lucky enough to arrive with s job and i got set up with an apartment pretty easily! I was there for a little over 9 months and every moment was incredible. Buenos Aires is an amazing city with so much today and the food is great! Well if you like ...

CITY GUIDE TO BUENOS AIRES One big travellers tip INFORMATION * TimeOut - Buy a TimeOut BA mag (available on the streets, espec. Florida and Santa Fe)(2005 is best, specifically for BA; 2006 is for Argentina and Uruguay) - the best guide to BA, awesome information, lot better than Lonely Planet. Also see TimeOut online, with info and can even or...

In LOVE with Buenos Aires. I know I have quite a few entries to go back and update, but I only have a few minutes and feel like spilling about B.A. This is by far my favorite city in South America and may absolutely qualify as my favorite city in the world (of those I have already seen in the past atleast!) Every street you turn down is full of ...

Buenos Aires is so far easily the most comfortable place in South America we´ve been to yet. Was recommended a hostel by Karen and stayed there for two nights then moved a bit closer to town and stayed in a feckin great hostel. Huge place loads of Irish and English etc. Which is usually a bad thing but very welcome here cos neither myself or Lyn...

After breakfast we walked down Libertad Avenue until we reached Corrientes Avenue and into a subway rail station called Uruguay. We paid $0.70c to travel to Malabia. Here were many leather outlets. It covered an area of about two large city blocks. They were supposed to be discount warehouses but the prices were similar to leather shops in Flori...