Dolmen Hotel Buenos Aires

... now in danger of missing out in a world cup final for the first time since 1970 (that was even before I was born).

Day 18 - Another 6 or 7 hours spent walking around, though this time was more purposeful - Recoleta cemetery, Palermo park/lake, Japanese gardens, Zoo and Botanic Gardens. The cementario is ...

... en voiture. Nous avons fait aussi plusieurs excursions, dont une randonnee de 20 km avec un denivele de 900m, parfois au grand vent et sous la pluie. Les Torres ont su se faire appreciees. Nous etions extenues.

Nous avons completer notre sejour a Buenos Aires a apprecier les plaisirs de la
grande ville, les danseurs de tango et profiter encore et encore des fameux steaks...

Argentine, tu me manques deja.

... and take an overnight bus back to Cordoba..because Jooooooooo was coming!!! Whoop Whoop!! I still cant believe we managed to meet up in Thailand, Fiji and now South America. How brilliant is that?? (well it is for us!)
We decided to go to another hostel, La Casona, this time recommended to us by the last hostel but it was more like a homestay!! We were greeted by Willie and Ellie with great big hugs and spoke barely any English and it was basically their ...

... 4 or 5 dogs each. We met up with Paddy on day two (friend from college who now lives there). Paddy showed us around his usual haunts of bars and restaurants which was great - and if Paddy doesnīt know a bar or restaurant itīs usually not worth going to!!!! One evening we went to a "Tipo Casa" for a meal. This is basically a restaurant in someones house where you must reserve in advance. There are only four tables there and the chef lives ...

... means that my spanish will improve by leaps and bounds.     In terms of my social life, I am definitely trying not to live the Argentinian way, which for me would be an almost impossibility. In Argentina, it is a social faux pas to go out before 1am and definitely a social faux pas to leave before 4am. Most people go out around 2-3am and stay out until 7ish in the morning. For me, this is terribly difficult because I thoroughly enjoy my sleep and most times would rather stay in ...

... the size of a tiny closet. 13) Shoplifting Detectors at the Grocery Store. Not kidding. I got stopped the other day because my package of 6 slices of ham had a little sticker on it that set off the detector. Of course I don't know that this is it, and the security guard starts going through my groceries looking for something--and I have no idea what!-- and I'm trying to help her, pulling out random things, to which ...

... the imaginary brake and reaching for a seat belt that isn't there. I always felt safer in a collectivo, a city bus than in a car, based on sheer size. A few days after my arrival, I saw a bus turn not wide enough and scrap the side of another moving vehicle, the driver throwing his hand up and yelling obscenities. One time on a packed bus, the driver suddenly braked and there was a lot thud. I was standing in the middle of the bus and could hardly move, much less see ...

... hatten wir im Reisefuehrer gelesen, dass Buenos Aires gegen Ende Dezember so langsam leer laeuft, was wir Stand 19.12. keinesfalls bestaetigen koennen. Wir laufen noch durch einige Parks und Strassen, und ueberlegen kurz, ob wir zum Abschluss mal in ein spanischsprachiges Kino gehen sollten, aber dort drin liegen die Temperaturen etwa 10 Grad unter der Aussentemperatur, und so lassen wir das lieber sein. Wir verdruecken uns statt dessen in ...

Day 9: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 We got a late start today and sat back much of the day. Katerina and I had a leisurely lunch, steak of course, that we split. The portions are so large. While I thorough enjoy the steaks, I am disappointed that they aren't thicker. I need to figure out how to say, "thick steak" in Spanish. On the way to lunch we went to buy a phone card. As I have mentioned earlier, the phones are a problem here. I will definitely ...

... his fans. If this were Las Vegas, we would see Elvis statues I'm sure. The centre of the plaza, surrounded by attractive period buildings, is still devoted to the sale of antiques. While strolling though the exhibits, I espy the picture of a ship I seem to recognize. Incredible as it may seem, it is a contemporaneous flyer for the "Reina del Mar", a transatlantic liner I had served on 45 years ago when I was a cadet in the Merchant Navy. I had ...