Bauen Suite Buenos Aires

... kiosk called an old man with a beaten up Peugeot 504, just like the one my parents owned in Africa 20 years ago, to take us back into town.

So we joined the queue and moved along with the hordes of others. The queue is again long but very orderly and all we can find along the way are people selling hash cakes but no tickets. We were getting closer and closer to the barriers and still I was sin boleto. So I tell everyone to give their tickets to one person and ...

... but...on further investigation, I realized that my math skills were just a bit off.

Once back at the hostel, I headed up to my room, a shared 8-person room overlooking the very busy Avenida Corrientes below. There, I met Vito, a 40-year-old backpacker from Italy, now living in Austria as an architect. He is planning to travel all through South America, all the way up to Mexico, before returning back to Europe. It was immediately ...

... went for a stroll around the town before returning back to the camp.



18th – Took a road taxi to get to the station and into B.A. again this morning, on arrival at the main station we made our way along the street to get a bus into the Retiro area. On arrival we went to the embassy first to get our new passports and then went again to the main cemetery to show John the graves. From there we walked back towards the main station trying to get a bus to take us ...

... house called La Cabrera which so many people had raved about - we had to wait an hour for the table!! The steak was very good, (but not life changingly good like in Salta!) and after dinner we decided to head to a Milonga with our new friends from the hostel, Kath & Wazza.

A milonga is basically an opportunity for ordinary local people to dance the tango and is a great way to see some tango and listen to a live band play, without having to ...

... one had to be done twice simply because thier tastings were full glasses...3 glasses for 20 pesos or $7. This is a great place! Weird world one of the guys that workes at Trapiche Winery used to work at...the firkin....my firkin of all places, small world! Also Trapiche is a label we may be able to get in Canada...check it out thier Malbec Roble was awesome. Get this...we went to a vine tasting bar the day we left because they have this great system ...

... and cute restos. We got into the regular custom of having a nice meal and bottle of wine at 10pm in San Telmo. It was quite romantic indeed. We had a picada (kind of a massive cheese and meat plate) at a small joint that had antique clocks and cappucino machines and had steaks at a parilla that had an outdoor garden. Since we are backpacking and I am engaged to a woman who loves to cook, we also used the local mercado ...

... very some familiar pieces of work to us. These were located in the area of Recoleta, an area of great wealth and very touristy! An interesting background was that the rich used to live in the Boca district in the south until an outbreak of Yellow Fever, from which they migrated to the Recoleta in the north; leaving the poor in the southern Boca district. Explains partially the rivalry of the football teams Boca juniors vs River Plate (representing ...

... for a couch on which to spend the night when travelling (saving hotel/hostel costs) or you have a couch to share. The underlying assumption of course is that you are open to meeting a bunch of different people from a bunch of different places. So, two of her friends are actually porteņos (the name of Buenos Aires-ites ...

... even said 'What is up beetches'!! I had to laugh at that one. One of the girls we were with got force kissed!! He just grabbed her face and she was like 'No thank you, no thank you' but he gave her a big smacker anyways!! very funny but like I say we never felt in danger. Getting into some of the clubs was funny too cos sometimes we didnīt have tickets and the lines were sooooo long. But Dinny, one of the guys we were with who hasnīt a word of Spanish would blag us in. Basically, he ...

... ovation!



At the end of the show we were whisked back onto the bus and back to our hostel, which took aaaaaages, but at least they got us home before midnight!

It had been a long ...