Hotel Conte Buenos Aires

... we are really enjoying the local hostels and pousadas where you can really get a flavour of where you are staying and also meet other like minded travellers. <br><br>On the Sunday we checked out and jumped on a bus to a small town called San Antonio de Areco which is a small original gaucho (cowboy) town 2 hours from Buenos Aires. Horserideing and cattle herding is still clearly the way of life out there and we arrived for their annual festival of ´Tradicion´ which involved ...

... We then started to gather paraphenilia for the exotic weather : sunglasses for me, suntan and mosqito repellent along with get some extra money out (dont know if there are cash machines in the jungle). And of course today has been blog day as you can see. Agathe will add alot of nice fotos as I have not been the one taking loads of photos... She has a bigger, nicer camera but it cant take videos :)<br><br>Otherwise progressing slowly in Spanish but the real progress made is ...

so today we are done the south american chunk of the trip. i can't believe it!! cam finally made it here yesterday and we spent all day sightseeing in la boca and san telmo (they had some antiques fairs and stuff going on, and it was a nice day for walking around). we were pretty tired because the night before chris and i went to watch the argentina vs brazil game in which argentina lost 3-1 so we missed ...

... getting lost, amazingly, and were all out for the count a few minutes later. We woke a few hours later to the enjoy a home cooked meal with our host and some interesting discussions and half sentences in English and Spanish, most of the time we were able to work out what we meant, I think. We retired a little later. I listened for a while to the nocturnal Argentinians of the Buenos Aires night before I slumped into the night.

... are known as the bin men because their ground is next to a rubbish tip!). When the San Lorenzo team came out they were greeted with flares and confetti and much flag waving. Huracan's players came onto the pitch through a big inflatable tube thing to protect them from missiles being thrown - some of the bin bags did make it onto the pitch though! The atmosphere was brilliant and I really enjoyed it even though San Lorenzo lost. I'll never forget ...

... in rio de janeiro, brazil and now we bump into him again in BA. there is obviously a gringo trail but this was excessive. great to see him. our own personal stalker! tried to leave buenos aires again the following night and after a day of hanging out doing nothing at the hostel took a taxi to the bus terminal to get bus to mendoza. arrived only to find we were an hour late for all the night buses so back to ...

... that I've encountered more often than I would have liked so far in Chile and Argentina, so I took pity. However, I didn't give him any money, as you never know if that will go to food or alcohol, but instead gave a granola bar, which he graciously accepted. I've visited some pretty nice cemeteries before, like the Pere Lechaise in Paris and the Aereslunden in Oslo - while all of them are different but stunning in their own way, the ...

... totally isolated events and different people over the course of several years--so I must be giving off some sort of vibe!). I try soo hard to wear Ann Taylor stuff, and I KNOW I am not cool enough to really deserve the "hippie" or "bohemian" titles. I think that each time someone calls me this, they are really revealing their ignorance of how true hippies or bohemians (H&amp;Bs) are. I know the REAL H ...

the steak and red wine here is good. cheap and good well, we have spent the past week in buenos aires. christmas was a great time, with large grass-fed argentine steak, plenty of good red wine and wonderful company. simon´s cold abated sufficiently to allow the tasting of the great food and we all enjoyed the local cemetary (well, HERE cemetaries are cool) and some beautiful city parks and bohemian ...

... for things in shops and restaurants and understand alot. You could maybe mistake him for an Argentine with his new tan lighter hair and Spanish words. haha. We are taking the lessons with a girl from here called Lucianna. We have become really good friends with her and her son Romeo and had alot of good dinners and BBQS with then. We will definitely stay intouch with them both. We have been to alot of traditional Argentine nights out ...