Blue Tree Hotels Buenos Aires

... to the down town area. I really wanted to get a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt from Buenos Aires so we had lunch there and brought a cool T-shirt so everyone knows were I have been!!! Mark says he wants to get one from Rio. After this we headed a couple of blocks down the road to get to a very famous Cemetary where Eva Peron is buried. I have never seen a cemetary like this as it was in the middle of the city and surrounded by a massive wall so you couldn´t see into. I was expecting graves and ...

... medical supplies into Bolivia for free. They were lovely but it took so long to chat to every person who might possibly be connected in some way. Definitely on South American time now! (We should get the supplies in for free BTW)

After some minor drama sorting out the taxis, we split up (avi/katy, joe/tammy) into two taxis and headed off. Avi- there are soccer fields everywhere! They are mad about football over here. Tammy ...

... called Forest Gump Bar Café. After that we went home and played for a bit. And finally we had dinner, brushed our teeth and went to bed!!!

Niamhs Story
First we had 4 hours of Spanish Lessons. Then we went and lunch at Forest Gump. Then we played ping-pong, had a piece of pizza, and had some fruit. Then we headed home. When we got home we had dinner and went to sleep on a bed, of course.

... tubes of pure intense flavoured fat…but surprisingly tasty…then we had assado ribs interior cuts of beef and entrada cuts also part of the chest area. Chewy and tasty. And of course a bottle of Malbec. The Argentineans certainly know how to have a Sunday roast….they feast at the weekends. After a coffee we realised we’d taken hours to eat our meal and everybody had left the restaurant apart from some patient waitresses and waiters politely pretending to ...

... per km...obviously he was looking to make money and he definitely knew at this point that we were tourists and not from Buenos Aires. We finally get to Museum and we find out that cover is 30 pesos but we didn't have enough money. Manny had lost some of his money after the taxi ride, he thinks that he handed the driver a 50 p bill by accident.....hmmm damn. What a night....hopefully tomorrow night we will get a chance to party it up. What a great dinner though.       

... our hostel during Carnaval with anything but the bare essentials and never with anything we weren´t prepared to lose. We even tucked our digital cameras away in favour of buying disposables. True to their title I suppose, Pete´s went walkabouts within two hours at the first Bloco (street party). At that time I wasn´t sure who I felt most sorry for; my freind losing his day´s potential pictures, or the pickpocket finding that his most recent haul yielded nothing more than four photos of ...

... when we got there there was an English speaking tour guide giving a group a talk on her. Was really interesting, we found out that the body had been embalmed and moved about a lot after the fall of Peron, eventually ending up in Italy. It was brought back to Argentina in the 70´s when Peron came back into power and put into the Duarte (her maiden name) family crypt with her mother and siblings in the cemetry. What was most shocking was the state of the body when it was ...

... almost always someone will be willing to tag along. The staff at each hostel I have encountered have been very different. The staff at hostel Estoril seemed to know everyone's name. Everyday there was turnover but as BsAs is one of the central hubs of South America people left for a few days then returned. The staff enthusiasm enabled a friendly atmosphere. They were very knowledgeable regarding ...

... glass doors or windows, some even with stained glass, allowing you to see right into them and all have the coffins just sitting out. Some were so extravagant that they had huge statues outside of them, most were made completely of marble and some were so old you could have walked right in if you wanted to. All of them were different. It is not the city's responsibility to keep these graves kept up - it is up to the family. So imagine if the ...

... that the fam didnt smoke from WAY BACK...and surprise surprise everyone in the family smokes (even the 15 yr old daughter) in the apartment. They explain to the company that it´s ´not in public spaces´....but that is rubbish because the smoke filters through the entire apartment and they are relentlessly spraying air-refreshener to keep up their end of the homestay deal. Actually a whole range of things have led to me moving out tomorrow to a ´matrimonio ...