Hotel Caesar Park Buenos Aires

... part of the city so we are in a neighborhood called Palermo at a B&B. It is a really cool place and the area of town we are in is much more to our liking than where we stayed before. It turns out there is an area of BA that we actually like! We walked around tonight and went to a little market. Since this is our last night in BA we wanted to go out on a good note so we had steak of course! Delicious as usual - at least mine was - Amy“s was a bit ...

... final on in the foorball stakes, and here, whether you like football or not (and most of the time we couldn“t really give a stuff) it is the emense atmosphere the locals generate before during and after a game that makes the event - Lenny you would be in heaven! Unfortunately, the match was to be a few days after we planned to leave, so tango it is then.
There is a range of shows on offer, from the glam hollywood style ...

... to come to dinner with me and Stu and Kristy from Oz. We headed to San Telmo on foot, to Defensa 855 and all got Bife de Lomo (fillet steak) with potatoes and sauce and mucho vino tinto de Malbec and almond ice-cream, yum.

The next day I met Francisco who I had met in Rio in the Samba club a couple of weeks back.
He picked me up from the apartment in his lovely car and took me to Tigre, the lush green beautiful town on the river that the 'Portenos' escaped to at ...

... to carve their steaks with a spoon but are more expensive. At El Desnivel Lucy ordered the bife de lomo or tenderloin again, the most expensive at £6, and I had the bife de chorizo which supposedly was a T-bone. Different places call in different things in the translation but what I got was a boneless slab of meat as wide as the plate and an inch and a half thick, The photo shows me looking slightly ...

... new Australian and British women, a man from Texas, and me. It's a good group and it's nice to get to know them. Today we learned the Imperative: How to say, for example--"Stop Bugging Me!" in Spanish. It's like...my fourth verb tense in a week and a half. And yes, that's a lot. After class, three of my classmates and I went up to MALBA-- el Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. It's a lovely building, and the art was great. Modern stuff. Some ...

... achieving stat) Wounds Kim: 2 (a nasty mishap during a hunger crazed knife / breadroll attack and another food incident with hot creamed potatoes.. there was scorching and blistering.. delightful) Craig: 0 Mosquito battles Kim: 1 Craig: 2 (one night spend awake hunting down the noisy blood sucking culprit - and we're not even in the jungle yet) This week we're heading to Iguazu Falls and we'll check out some bars and more restaurants in our lovely neighbourhood, Palermo.

... infusion, Kyla's bg was 263 mg/dl - much better to be too high. She was discharged - at no cost to us at all - and we went with the driver to the car. Kyla has no memories of the incident from sitting down on the bags to eat glucose after testing herself until becoming alert again on the hospital bed. So let us never speak of this incident again. The drive through Buenos Aires suburbs was pleasant - limited traffic. One odd thing that reminded me of Vietnam: lots ...

... bit of his bresaola, thin slices of Italian salted and cured beef - simple, but good. I originally wanted to go with the same set menu, but none of the courses was appealing to me. Wade selected the pork with orange pepper sauce, a nice light accompaniment that complemented, but didn't overpower the flavour of the pork. Though my cochinillo was great, I would definitely have gone with the set menu instead, had I known this dish would ...

... to wear a waistpack or backpack. · Women dye their hair. Even though my clothes and camera didn't scream "tourist", surely my grey hair did! · Cash is king. Bring U.S. dollars and change at Banco Nacional at the airport. Bring extra U.S. dollars and keep them in reserve, just in case. Using the ATM, we sometimes would ask for $700 and the machine would tell us to input a smaller amount. US dollars as well as ...

... school to my home. It was a long walk, especially in the humidity that Buenos Aires is renowned for. An hour and 45 minutes later I was home and sweating profusely, probably from just missing all the dog **** that litters the streets. However, it was worth it because not only was it a pleasant walk with lots of parks but there was also the football stadium of River Plate. Amazing the things we stumble upon. The stadium was a concrete slab assembled together ...