Hotel Nh Florida Buenos Aires

... have USD in the machines) and all prices on menus and windows are listed with a "$", despite the prices being in ARS. In the late 1990s, with years of low inflation and strong growth, a wealth of natural resources, a highly educated and literate population, a strong farm export sector and for other optimistic economic reasons, Argentina was billed by Western banks and investors as the next greatest thing and ...

... we got home at 1h30am today is a relax day with shopping - shoe shopping will be dangerous here.... tonight we are partying at 2am with the people we are staying with... it s a fiesta for the opening of a restaurant.. and we will hit a pool at some point today... tomorrow more tourist things and sunday we may head out to play golf... Argentina has been fantastic so far!!! later

... they had houses made of galavinised sheeting like a cattle shed twas mad, we then headed to see the famous boca juniors soccer stadium the home of the famous diego maradonna. it was pretty cool didnt stay long as catriona was enjoying it quite as much as i was. We headin up to Puerto Iguazu today to see the famous Iguazu falls. Gettin da bus there its a 18 hour bus ride seriously lookin forward to it NOT.

... to have ever played the game have worn their fabled Blue & Gold shirts.

These include a certain Mr Maradona (who moved from Boca to Barcelona for a world record fee), but since then the list ...

... Leeds Uni. Luckily the room had 2 beds! ;) Another hour was spent to unsucessfully draw cash from an ATM - turned out to be a national problem for foreigners in Venezuela, so if you plan to go there - BRING $$$$$$! The black market also gives about 2x the exchange you would get from the bank, which was lucky that I had $40 on me. This allowed us breakfeast and the fare to one of the islands to go and snooze on the beach. Aparantly Puerta la Cruz ...

... for 50,000 boliviara's (US$25) as I wanted to check out the backpacker hotel for US$10 one or 2 blocks away. Well, it was full, so I tried 5 other hotels in the same street - all full. Went back to the first one, and they raised the price on me. With hindsight, I really really shoulda taken it, but I hate feeling ripped off and damned if I was gunna pay an extra $5 just coz the guy knows he can get away with it. Stupid, stupid me. I walked round the rather dodgy area of Savana ...

So we said goodbye to Peru and to be honest with you, I was actually glad of leaving and arriving in Caracas. Was actually looking forward to being surrounded by local people of the country and having to talk in Spanish again. For some strange reason we had not booked a place to stay. We thought we would be in the city by late evening and find a decent place to stay in Altamira. I really do think that we do not like learning from our mistakes. After a long ...

... everyone wants to talk to us, take a picture of us....buy us a beer (don{t worry mommy).....give us things....very cool...sometimes the two of us get to a point of īīgeez! come on!''...last night it was our goal to BLEND in to the culture of caracas...so we totally dressed it up...me with my new political spanish shirt....blue scarf over my head.....naomi all in the indigenous jewellry....we were really trying....shaking our hips as hard as we could while ...

... steep hills) *nd kept st*rtling me *nd reminding me of home. In the morning I w*ndered *mid the L* Gui*r*/L* M*quiette town m*rket (which were HUGE, we w*ndered for 2 hours *nd never found the end of it) *nd in the *fternoon I went on * Semester *t Se* org*nized tour to three *rt museums in C*r*c*s. We rode the hour to C*r*c*s with * hil*rious tour guide n*med Wolfg*ng Viv*s (Ukr*ine mother *nd Western Europe*n f*ther met *nd fell in love in Venezuel*, or something, he w*sn't ...