Hotel Internacional Buenos Aires

... I had never seen before. I was graciously woken up at 7:00 am, by my friend next to me, hitting me, saying “looooook there are mountains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wake up!!!!” The only mountain to be seen at that point was so far in the distance I went back to sleep J. The weekend was fabulous. I spent time with my Chilean friends from my trip to Santiago last summer as well as catching up with my GW friends who I studied with in Costa Rica this past ...

... Justine still with us boozing, where is all this money coming from.

Back at the hotel, there is one last game of cards with my new Scottish family before they will head off in the morning.

Tuesday 11 August - Justine-gate

I take another lie in and do nothing in particular until noon when I go to the hotel to see off the Scots and Norn Iron Steph. Unfortunately attention has been focussed elsewhere as it transpires for various reasons ...

... i settled on pointing at the folded dough on the counter, likely from the day before but I was getting woozy. ¨un empanada? (hardly a meal carzy gringo) ¨si´, y agua fria¨(shrugs and thankfully gets a new one from the back filled with ground beef onions and cheese. Super tasty, $2 incl. the bottle of water and tip. 2:00ish after walking for another hour, soaking up all the rad graphiti around this part of town, hungry again I stumble ...

... and smoothly went through all customs etc. The ferry was actually 30mins late in leaving, so we may not be in Buenos Aires until after 10.30pm. We sat and watched the sunset from the ferry and then departed for Buenos Aires. We arrived back into the Argentinean capital on time, walked back to the hostel and then just crashed in bed. 15 countries down and only Brazil (and Malta) to go.....

... ve owned this many dresses since I was a toddler! (Dad, know you´ll be pleased.) We go with Nat to the Lonius jazz club, very small, very cool and quite dark...we chill out and appreciate a bit of jazz...nice. but they do great cocktails and while everyone else is sipping wine slowly we´re enjoying frozen mohjitos and maybe a bit of impromptu dancing. We head to Club 69 which has amazing transvestite and breakdancing shows plus a very cool retro soul music ...

... to a private dance club room. If you want to dance with the "commoners," you're going to have to leave the privilaged area. (Where the "commoners" dance. No photo of the bartering for fear the bar owner would pommel us "touristas.") Step 4: Unbutton your ...

... tegen de afstanden die ik zal gaan afleggen in Argentinie :) In BA aangekomen, goed aangekomen bij het huis waar ik de komende tijd ga verblijven, en mijn eigen sleutel gekregen (wat toch wel lollig is... ik woon nu in BA!!). Eerste indruk is dat het een hele fijne stad is om te wonen, voelt heel Europees aan. Het gaat me wel bevallen hier denk ik!!

... we wanted to visit the cemetery, so we walked to Santa Fe, then down Las Heras and about 40 minutes later reached the "cemeterio", which is located behind a really nice church.



You entered through the church and walked through to the Cemetery Gates, which I can never ...

... dilapidated, as is the ancient waiter who seems to have worked there since opening day with the same off-white jacket. There's no British beer, but the local Guilmes is very acceptable. We are entertained by further copies of Carlos Gardel, who regale us with musical memories of past times. One can almost imagine that Carlitos played here before fame carried him into the higher stratus of Palermo and Recoleta. Parque Ledezma is a poor cousin of ...