Intercontinental Buenos Aires

This morning I took some laundry to a laundrette down the road, opposite Haley's house in fact. I felt sorry for the Chinese women who run it, as my laundry bag contained the socks I had got rather soggy at Iguazu falls, which were now days later smelling absolutely foul. Shortly after this exciting trip, Troy came round to my hostel while Haley went to run some errands. He popped up in the reception with a ridiculously cheery facial expression, placed ...

... a gorgeous Argentine resteraunt, where we were served possibly the biggest piece of meat I have ever seen! Then many little pots of stuff like roasted garlic, sun dried tomatoes, rice dishes, etc ...soo much food! Was my idea of heaven tho, especially with the nice bottle of argentine wine to wash it down with! The night was going great until the fake note saga! We were out with hannah and jess then their friend from home (another hannah) and it was her last night in ...

... of which we cycled through (including BA's answer to Hyde Park). All the parks are filled with literally hundreds of dogs being watched over by the crazy "dog walkers" - basically people that spend all day babysitting dogs, walking up to 12 at a time and just sitting with them in parks. It's not an outrageous concept I admit but the sheer volume of dogs in the city was quite amusing. I don't think I saw one bit of **** though, so I guess ...

... game in the Six Nations, against Scotland. Unfortunately on the subway, Dad was pick-pocketed. A guy tried to rob me first but I felt him and warned Neil, not thinking Dad was in any danger. Between two of them they still managed to do it. Irritating, but still impressive nonetheless. There are many many Irish bars in Argentina due to the large numbers of Irish that have emigrated here. (It is the 3rd highest country in the world for Irish ...

... out in the bookshop for a couple of hours looking at all the photos and paintings in their books. had to stop amber from buying up a library worth of stuff, books are not good for light travel, esecially art books which tend to be huge. went to hairdressers and although i resisted the temptation of letting more south americans loose on my hair (still scarred from sucre) amber took the plunge for a change of ...

... free walking tour that was conducted by a couple of history students from the university. It was really good. I only did the first part of the tour, which centred around Plaza de Mayo, and the Avenue leading to it. Argentina has a fascinating, and turbulent history, and is only just emerging from the 2001 social and financial crisis, and the guys explained the events surrounding this really well. It made me want to read and learn more about the city´s history, and it´s people ...

... for the dry red wine here. It was, in a word, stupendous. One guy in our program cried because it was so emotionally moving . The whole evening was just absolutely fun-filled. Sunday, we left our hotel and toured San Telmo, a barrio filled with artesan fairs and the streets just FILLED with people down the streets, blankets spread out, tables up, their goods EVERYWHERE. We were given four hours to tour the street, which (in my ...

... we'd be safe.

We asked the hostel what ticket agency they recommended before we left this morning and they suggested a package which involved standing rather than sitting in the stadium.

I really fancied this (those were the days etc) but Katie would rather pickle her head in acid than stand and watch ...