Dazzler Tower San Telmo Buenos Aires

... the tramp "cuanto cuesta?" the tramp replied "50 pesos" (more or less 10 pound)! Totty and Angel start studying the picture, the tramp holds the picture up and says that it is a picture of this plaza. Angels face was priceless, he looked at the picture, looked around, then back at the picture, made a funny face which said 'if you say so'. meanwhile Totty was mumbling in English something along the lines of "but it's ****, it looks like a kid has done it" then he told the ...

... I told them they were about 5 years too late for that since the Kings stink lately. They also told us that people from BA are loco! We also checked out a local supermarket just to see what it was like and walked around a small artisans market. All in all, it was a good day.

Today I think we are planning on going to some huge shopping mall in another part of the city. I'm not entirely sure yet. And I think tomorrow we are going out ...

Where do I even begin? The past two weeks have been more than incredible. Buenos Aires is such a fabulous city. Each and every one of you better make it here at some point in your life! To put everything I want to say into some sort of orderly fashion, I am going to split up this entry into sections (I think I may have done this once before, at the beginning of my time in Costa Rica). So here goes:

Home Stay: I am living with a Jewish 60 ...

With the apartment toilet fixed and bagged yogurt in the fridge, we set off to explore the sights of Recoleta.  First on the to do list: Recoleta cemetery.  We all agreed that we are starting a family grave, Recoleta style.  The cemetery was great for pictures.  You could take some great engagement pictures there--I wonder how the Argentines would feel about that.  Maybe they would go for it.  We also hit the weekend fair out the cemetery.  Jess was obsessed ...

... with the street people sleeping in the park and the nearly daily demonstrations demanding justice, football and polo matches, and much more. The Argentinians seem very cultured and well-dressed. They are so busy hustling ...

... I mentioned before that the Boca fans are famous for being passionate, particularly a hooligan faction nicknamed La Doce (No 12).  We heard on the way to the game that there had been a riot somewhere, nothing unusual there, but on tv it was reported that someone had been shot. The group was coming up for new leadership and a few contenders were jostling for position.. by force obviously. We got seats.. err standing in one of the terraces behind the ...

Whilst in Mendoza an Irish couple had told us about their cruise around the Antarctic...sounded awesome...and with Mer needing more recovery time we decided to book too after about 5 mins of consideration so..instead of making our way down to Patagonia we caught a bus over to Buenos Aires where we would board the Star Princess on Valentines Day for a cruise to the end of the earth (who said I´m not a romantic? ' err... actually Mer did ...

... Meeting up with Pierpaolo's friend Giulio, his wife Mercedes and their 2 kids Micaela and Matias, we jump on a ferry boat from Tigre and wind our way through the delta, which is what I imagine posh bits of Florida and Louisiana might be like if such things exist. Half the city seems to be out playing on boats today, and the river provides a lush green walled playground for them to do just that. Lunch at a riverside cafe and a 2 hour walk through the jungle and this has been a ...

We arrived back in BA to be greeted by some pretty lousy weather, dark and overcast, far from the 35 degree sunshine we had been used to before. This would be a flying visit, only staying in the city for 1 night before heading across the Rio della Plata to Uruguay. We had planned with Keith that we would head to that evening to the Parque Tierra Santa - Holy land park, a theme park dedicated to the Holy Land and the bible. Sounds a bit weird, well, we had read about it in ...

... first was in an old theatre which is now a book shop. The coffee area is on the stage and the curtains are still there and you can see all the balconys. It was beautiful, we would never have known about it if she hadn't taken us so it is a bit of a bonus. Not sure what are plans are for Christmas so far. It's quite a catholic country so everything closes on the 24th and 25th, we are hoping to go out somewhere for christmas dinner so think it ...