Four Seasons Buenos Aires

... observation that they all had dark hair a dark skin. She was bang on, as I looked around it wasn`t possible to spot anything outside this gene pool, apart from Shell herself of course who stood out like a sore thumb, with red hair and pale skin. She said she felt a little self consious, especially as she`d been for a run earlier in the morning, and cars had been tooting at her, plus lots of people whistling oh la la´s form the street. Poor girl came back ...

... we had our meals we all started walking again. Throughout the day we walked and walked and walked and ended up getting muy muy tired. After a while we had a rest and had a snack. We had some crackers and teeth lollies. A while later we started walking again. Later on we came to a place called café Martinez and we had some beautiful food. Niamh and I both shared 2 toasted sandwiches each and half of a very BIG sandwich each. We shared a delicious milkshake which ...

... cheesecake or chocolate torte, but it was 10 a.m., and we resisted. In addition to the excellent coffee/cappuchino, there were three computers available for customers' use, and the whole café had wi-fi. Oh, and way in the back, you could buy a Big Mac. If McDonalds launches this model in the U.S., I think Starbucks will be in for some very tough times.

... recited the rather typical foreigners story of the evening, including a trip to the Sunset club, which he described as best he could with dilated pupils and an aroma of tequila belying his every word.

They were right to have their doubts. A search party, led aptly by Giant Dutchman, rode off into the sunrise to scour the club, but all to no avail. Once all the revellers had stumbled out into the light by 8am without the ...

... hostel pour mon check-in et le réceptionniste m'apprend que je suis la 3ème personne qui arrive ainsi à l'hostel. Je réalise alors que ce aui s'est passé n'était pas complètement dû au hasard. Il est plus que probable qu'un complice des Argentins que j'avais croisé dans la rue se serait enfui avec mon sac à dos si j'avais eu le malheur de le déposer sur le trottoir. Je n'ai pas cherché à savoir avec quoi on m'avait arrosé mais je ...

... we had numerous armpits and sweaty appendages pressing into our faces and bodies. Just as we got to the very front of the queue the steward shouts "No more tickets, sold out!". Noooooooooooooooo! We were only 10 away! If people hadn´t pushed in we´d have been fine. Oh how I long for orderly queues again...... After that let down we headed back to change out of our now horrendously sweaty clothes (the sweat being that of the bear sized ...

... soon speeding across town towards La Boca.

It became immediately obvious that the "fluent English guide" that we'd paid for had about 10 words of English, but we figured that you don't need someone to talk you through a football game so this shouldn't be too much of a problem!

We parked some way from the ground, but ...