Loisuites Arenales Buenos Aires

... a while trying and failing to understand the significance of an exhibit of row upon row of wrinkly potatoes stuck with electrodes and hooked up to an ammeter.<br>Bevan has developed a rather concerning habit of street drinking at all available opportunities... oh well, I better have another alfajor (a creation involving biscuit, caramel and chocolate).

... Duncan. "OK" said Ben. "Look, there's a big cow outside the restaurant" shrieked Nadine from outside the front door. Duncan donned his camera as Nadine and Ben each licked a nostril of the giant cow after which the trio made their way up to a local english pub for a couple of civilised drinks. <br><br>"Oh my God 2 for 1 on Warsteiner" shouted Duncan as he stumbled through the door of the pub<br> "I'll order 4 just in case the ...

... about the Jewish community and history, go to Kosher McDonalds and spent some time getting more into the culture. It´s a really cool city and I haven´t felt unsafe at all, which is what I had expected a little bit. I´d love to come back here and wish I had at least a few more days to take in more of the city. Tonight, I fly up to Lima, Peru and my tour starts on Tuesday. It will take me through Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, right up until the week before I come back home. *True **Lie

Joe says: BA is a seriously cool city but seen as we had been here already for a week we have seen nearly all the sights, so all we really have to do now is get ****** and enjoy the night life. I have even started drinking wine, Catriona was delighted with this at first but after the 3rd bottle think she realised she was out of her depth and I was drinkin it like pints. Thought it wasnt havin much of an effect on me but the 3 irish girls we went to the club with had a ...

... I did few things. A visit of the city and then a tour on the Tigre river, next to Buenos Aires, and the next day a walk in town to see the Jardín Japonés and the Eva Peron museum. The visit and tour were lousy, and to top everything off there was such a traffic jam in Buenos Aires that in the end we went off the stuck minibus and came back to the hostel by subway. The Jardín Japonés was much nicer, a peaceful little heaven in the middle of the muck up of Buenos Aires, I ...

... seating around a central plaza, just a really good atmosphere. After spending 10 lovely relaxing days in BA we decided it was time for a wee change and booked the ferry to Uruguay (but we may pass back through BA, somebody wants to try and get tickets to the Argentina - Venezuela game in March, wonder who?). Hadn´t originally planned on visiting Uruguay but its so easy to get to over the Rio del Plata by boat we thought, why not? Uruguay here we come......

Yesterday morning, after another delicious breakfast at the hotel, we found a beautiful old church down the street crammed between some ugly, run-down high rise apartments. The church was over 100 years old and had no air-conditioning. Only about 20 people showed up for mass (all older parishioners), yet mass was celebrated by 4 priests. It was in Spanish, of course, so we couldn't understand too much. Surprisingly, the whole mass was sung ...

... housekeeping and to the concierge, are helpful and friendly. Just great! We highly recommend the Art Suites (http://www.artsuites.com.ar). We stayed at the Art Suites for 5 nights and then 2 nights on our return from the Lake District. You can get a feel for the Art Suites and neighborhood from our photos ...

... We also pretended to be guests of the Panamericano Hotel to snap a view of the city from above. A staff member busted us in the act, but not before we snapped a great shot of the city that appears to go on forever. In the evening we returned to Café Tortoni for our first Tango Show in their intimate downstairs theatre. The show was great. Surprisingly not as sexual as we expected, but cool none the less. There was a guy who hit ...

... to watch it.<br><br>Getting the ferry tickets proved rather more challenging than it should have, with the lady's non-existent English and my not-very-good Spanish, but we got there in the end. So we now have tickets to Uruguay leaving tomorrow at 11:15am and returning just before 4pm on Tuesday, in time for our 7pm bus up to ...