Bristol Hotel Buenos Aires

... up an extraordinary number of hats to add to my collection, I have been unable to keep my memoir musings up to their normal standard. This is all very unfortunate but needs must when the devil goes to the toilet in your kettle as the saying goes. I will, however, see what I can do by way of making best a bad situation.<br><br> <br><br><br> It all began way back in October. I had just had a fleeting one day visit to Chile and then an even more fleeting hour and a half visit to ...

... There were about 15 people on our tour. Once again, the guide was bilingual so we were able to understand most of the tour. They gave us tea and cookies to start, then we went walking around the grounds, which were huge! They showed us a sheep herding demonstration where the sheep dogs make the sheep go in specific directions to certain areas. That was pretty cool. Then we walked around some more and the guide showed us a lot of the birds and other ...

... and go home, you have man flu", nope she said we can`t tell you what it is. Its flu but don`t know if its swine flu or normal flu, Go home for 7 days, no school, no going out... ARRRGGHHH!! I`m on holiday! Oh and come back if you start coughing blood or can`t breathe very well...<br><br>I tell my host family and lock myself in my room and start cursing. Less than 30 mins later, Sylvia comes in with the phone. Its my Spanish school ...

... We went for the super cama class (even better than the last one) because it wasn't much more for a proper bed that lies flat. When we had booked that we caught the Subte (Metro) to San Telmo and had a look around the Antiques market which was really good fun. We then headed to La Boca, a very colourful bohemian district close to the docks which was first settled by the Italian migrants. We walked up the famous street &#8220;Camonito&#8221; where the ...

After the overnight bus through flat fields full of cattle, we arrived at the massive Retiro bus station in Buenos Aires. The sheer size of the station was incredible. Many people use the buses to get round this huge country as they are clean, comfortable and cheap and the place was packed with people and buses headed everywhere. We went back to the Hotel Bolivar in San Telmo, dropped the bags and changed ...

... Chile, but sadly no. Met a nice, talkative couple from Cape Town South Africa this am, visiting for 9 days and quite impressed we were able to take a month off...She was sad about Americans lack of vacation time! We are off to "tour" the city and hopefully find a camera/computer cable so you all can enjoy our nice pix of BA...

... our next lesson today and then Tues and Wed. So what we were looking forward the most today was the trip to river plate stadium, once the 5th best stadium in the world and now.... well not so good. Anyways we met up with our tour guide at 3 and picked up a few other backpackers and then headed into the city . Todays game was between River Place and Colon. River plate has 38% of the WHOLE South American people who follow it and Boca ...

... headed back to the hostel so I could skype home to wish Steph Happy 30th birthday. Ed says its all downhill from here Steph!!! In the afternoon we got the bus to an area called Palermo where there are lots of nice parks and a Japanese garden. It is supposed to be the wealthiest and prettiest area of BA and I have to say it is beautiful. We walked through a couple of parks and then wandered through the Japanese garden which was beautiful, with little bridges leading to an island ...

... the centuries, Do what I did, travel during a quiet weekday, thus avoiding holidays and hot summer weekends when the Porteños invade the town in their hundreds, and you can almost have the place to yourself. I found a bed and breakfast ($US25 a night, double with ensuite) called Posada Casa Las Pinas in a quiet street a block or so up from the port, in the historical quarter. Then, armed with a very cute and ...