Iruna Hotel Mar del Plata

... printed out 36 hours in BsAs from the New York Times that suggested various places to go, one of which was this little hot dog place in one of the main plazas. I know this is going to sound weird, but I have always loved hot dogs from random places like that. Strange, I know. But once I read about it in the article, I just couldn’t get the idea out of my mind because the NYT made them sound like something ridiculously special. We find the place, sit down and ...

... ambiance of the city. We picked up some lunch at the local grocery store and headed to a park just outside of El Camineta to sit down and eat. El Camineta is the most famous street in Boca and a symbol of Argentina, due to these colors. Boca is also known to be one of the poorer neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, and our guidebook told us not to wander off the main tourist drag. We did, anyway. Inadvertently, we popped by the Boca Juniors ...

... 50. Called it a night after that filling meal although we were planning on going to a local popular nightclub. Oh well, we’ll check it out another night.

Next morning we hit the streets of BA, as the locals call it, bright and early at 11AM which apparently was normal for BAers. It’s very much a late night city that does end up sleeping, albeit sleeps in pretty late. We ended up going to Plaza Dorrego to watch street tango and have a light lunch. Pretty cool ...

... equivalent of the White House) and is notorious for its political demonstrations. I witnessed a couple of them during my stay--from parades down the avenue with music and balloons to camp-out like protests on the park in front of Casa Rosada. It seemed like something was always going on, even a movie filming one night.

Touring the historical buildings on either end of the Avenida de Mayo is surprisingly free, but they are only open during certain ...

I am still waiting for word from the Argentine Aduane, so I have decided to go to Iguazu at the weekend by bus.
Not exactly a bike trip but it will take at least 8 days by bike if and when I get the import certificate, this could then roll on to more than two weeks to get the bike shipped by the time weekends slip in. By bus it is and 18 hour overnight ride there stop a couple of nights and another 18 hour ride back to Buenos Aires.
This ...

... checked into our hostel, the owner was rolling a joint at the front desk!! I practically died in laughter/shock.

During our first day in Puerto Viejo, we just hung out around the town talking to locals and tourists listening to Bob Marley on repeat everywhere we went. The next day we rented bikes to ride to what we were told would be a beautiful beach down the coast. It ended up taking about an hour and a half to ride there on the rockiest, bumpiest ...

... really...unfortunately not a happy drunk... Another interesting twist to the trip was our border crossing into Chile. The tour group was short a couple tickets for us to catch the bus "no problem" they said "we'll talk to the bus company when we get there" riiiiigghht. Well the guide didn{t come to the crossing and out driver, nice guy, did tlak to them. However what are the odds that the bus company actually would let us on when the driver ...

... concert de musique arabe avec danseuses du ventre sur la place du marche. Lucie a ete plutot choquee sur les reprentations de certaines scenes dures de la vie de jesus comme le calvaire et sur le fait de parler de la vie de jesus dans un parc d'attraction. Aujourd'hui pas de photo car j'ai oublie mon appareil auquel je tenais beaucoup... mauvaise nuit.

... the city. Landing at the hostel down town, what first struck me was that every night of the week there is something to do in this city. Very accommodating in keeping their punters happy, the hostel we were staying at had a massive white board the size of an alfresco painting hanging on the wall, intricately explaining every worthy night spot and underground venue in town! Our first taste of Buenos Aires night life was the mega club affectionately known as ...

... to be about 25 degrees and quite cool in the evenings. This is the life... Although Mar Del Plata is very busy and commercial we´ve still had a good time on our unscheduled stop here - it´s very lively and the sun is shining. Started with a great breakfast at the Club Del Golf followed by a stroll along the sea front and clambering among the rocks. Lots going on, must be a football match on today as lots of ...