Hotel Carly Buenos Aires

Finally, a chance to sit back and relax. Bizarre as it sounds, this backpacking thing is exhausting! We found a basic hostel/hotel in the "Brunswick" area of Buenos Aires - a suburb by the name of San Telmo. A bed, any bed, has never looked so inviting. We must have been worn out, Bek picked up some kind of flu and I slept for about 14 hours. Buenos Aires is a beautiful city, filled with amazing life. Plaza Dorrego, 20m down the road from our hostel, is constantly buzzing with stalls of local...

Another early start, but we didnīt mind cos we were off to the airport to board our flight to Buenos Aires. Both a bit nervous but really excited!!! After a very long (about 12 hrs) but otherwise fine flight, we touched down at Ezeiza airport at around 11pm. After the freezing cold of Madrid it was such a pleasant feeling to feel warm air on our faces when we got off the plane, even though it was fairly late at night - bring on a year of summer sunshine!!!! Transport into town couldnīt be bet...

Ok, so as I said in the last entry, after a disappointing few days in Montevideo we were only too happy to make our way back to Buenos Aires so we could continue on around Argentina. After standing in the torrential rain for a wee while we finally managed to flag down a taxi and made our way to the main bus terminal hoping to arrange bus/boat tickets back to Buenos Aires that day (weīd never had a problem buying last minute tickets so far on the trip). We had decided to go back to Buenos Aire...

March 16-23, 2009: Buenos Aires, Argentina / Montevideo, Uruguay Bienvenidos a Buenos Aires Buenos Aires. The city has a magical name to go along with its mythical fame. The Paris of South America. It has long been said that Argentina was as wealthy as England, France and all of the world's great powers at the beginning of the 20th century. It has also been said that the governments of Argentina have done everything possible to ensure that the country trailed far behind the world powers, in t...

Carly Hotel Umberto Primo 464 (San telmo area, infront of plaza dorego) Payed 32 pesos a night for two of us, own room and bath. Rico, Josie, and Emma During our first week in Buenos Aires, we got to know the city some, and during the second week we met some of our fellow travellers who were quartered in the good ol' Hotel Carly with us. The hotel has a small common space with two computers' worth of internet access, some tables, a cable TV, and a nice view of Avenida Humberto Primo. And that...

29th July – 4th August 2009:

We spent our last day in Australia on a trek round the ooutdoorr shops of Sydney, eg. Their Millet's etc looking for some new sleeping bags. I wasn't even going to bother with a bag at all but after some last minute research Ang & I came to the conclusion that it was going to be arctic, especially down south and the last weekend in the Blue Mountains (Australia) showed our current ones to be ***** but we managed to pick up a couple of beauties in ...

Our arrival at Buenos Aires airport went well, no problem with the custom officers or the border police, we fly through the checks into the bagage claim area where as we arrive our bagages convey past us. After running up to catch the luage, we get some money out and call up Victor to tell him we have arrived. Grab a Cab and 40 min later we arrive at Victorīs. We had a quick apperitif, left our big bags at victorīs and set off to find a hotel. Past the first hotel which was asking slightly to...

Seb ayant ecrit un gros pave sur nos premieres heures a Buenos Aires, il m'est difficile de passer apres lui. Amis francophones, l'heure est venue pour se mettre a l'anglais!!

Arrives chez notre ami Victor samedi vers 19h (heure locale), un peu sonnes les jeunes mais nous ne refusons pas un steak pour celebrer notre arrivee. Nous voila donc partis dans une 'parilla' ou se font apparement les meilleurs steaks de la ville. Un menu incomprehensible mais j'opte pour le petit 'bife de lomo'...

Since the last entry we went out ot a Batucado (Drum orchestra jamming type of thing). Incredible beats, with various South American drums but the lead drummer was african and was on a djembe. He was also extraordinarily good. What was really amazing is how they played well together, each drum type playing a specific rythm, stopping, starting and changing rythm as the conductor would instruct. It was indeed an orchestra. The concert lasted 2hrs and finished around 10pm, after a quick beer in ...