Hotel Villa Julia Tigre

... personality!

Today is our second day and we have been wandering around the north side of town. We visited the Argentinian office of CH Robinson and plan to go out with them on Monday night. It is so nice to know people in the area, they were very excited to see us and gave us tons of advice on where we should go next! We walked past La Casa Rosa (the Pink House) which is the capitol building. The bad ...

... potentially rabid but extremely cute little pup, but I did decide to turn around and head back to the restaurant that was next door to the hotel. As it turns out, I found an awesome meal...probably the best tasting steak I came across in Argentina.

I decided to leave city exploring until daylight and headed to the casino that was connected to my hotel. I took a lap and had no language barrier recognizing each of the major table games ...

... baigner et nous prélasser puis nous partons visiter le cimetière de la Recoleta près du centre-ville. Après avoir pris quelques photos et avoir retrouvé la tombe d'Eva Duarte/Peron perdue au milieu de ce labyrinthe d'allées toutes semblables, nous allons ensuite manger au restaurant en face de leur hôtel. Le lendemain, nous nous organisons une petite excursion à Tigre, petit bourg situé dans la banlieue de Buenos Aires en bordure de l'embouchure du Rio de la Plata. Les riches ...

... parts of Argentina. I think they're the Aussie-style ones, and you need to borrow an adaptor from the front desk unless you happen to have Aussie appliances. Come to think of it, the Hotel Waldorf in BA had the Euro-style plug-ins, so maybe it's only this hostel that's odd? The Dutch guy staying in my room absolutely REEKS - he's wearing the same clothes as yesterday, and his towel is absolutely disgusting. Even when he's not ...

... No cherry blossoms but beautiful purple flowers in the trees all over the place (I LOVE it of course!!) -tap water is drinkable -hostel has a computerized check-in and reservation system (in Peru and Ecuador sometimes there was a book with your name in it) -buses with actual stops (rather then people just waving them down in the street to get on and yelling ´baja´ to get off!) -buses with machines to collect your money (instead of a guy who rides on the bus to collect ...

Congratulations everybody! (On the election of Barack Obama, of course) I wasn't in the states, so I don't know for sure, but I think the election may have been almost as big of a deal here as it was in the states. Everybody was talking about it and it was in every newspaper. Most Argentines that I'd been speaking to couldn't even really name who Barack Obama was running against (not a bad thing :-P), so that gives you an idea of how close ...

... After a nice lunch and going over some more Spanish and trying to understand noone, something, someone and everyone, we asked the waiter if anyone would be able to give us some information about the hotel. Right away he said yes and went over to a lady sitting near the front desk. Her name was Maria Valle, she came over right away and dove into the history of the hotel and all the questions we had for her. We had paid our bill so she ...

... and found a nice restaurant to eat lunch in. By that time it was time to catch our returning boat to Tigre and we spent some time wandering around the markets and then caught the train home. It took longer to get the bus from the train station than it did to get thew train back to Buenos Aires. All in all had a nice day, but really couldn{t tell you what 3 Bocas was like at all.

... but it`s killing me at the moment. I am sitting there in complete shock and disbelief. One of the oddest things I have ever witnessed in my life and I`m starting to get extremely annoyed. This is worse than that time I was up like $1,200 and actually got up from the table and then blew it all waiting for Lysander to show up. I don`t understand how anyone ever wins laying like this. I feel like I walked into Bizarro World and sooner or later the ...

... to the actual tour bus. This intermediary was beyond poor and complaints to Viator have gone unresolved. That being said... The tour itself was excellent and our guide, Leonardo, did a great job explaining everything from leaving the city of Buenos Aires and entering the Province of Buenos Aires to the different towns we passed on the way up to Tigre. The Parana ...