Maison Apart Hotel Mar del Plata

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

The beach!!! This is not just any quiet beach. It is a good sized city about 400km (250mi) south of Buenos Aires. It is the largest city on the Atlantic costal strip of beaches and fishing towns in Eastern Argentina. There is a busy casino that draws many "porteños"(B.A. residents) for vacations year ...

En el fin día, nosotros fuimos a la Buenos Aires otra vez. Esta tiempo, nosotros fuimos a la playa, Mar del Plata. La Playa esta a muchos kilometros de largo. Es lo muy famoso y popular. Fuimos bronceado y nadando en el mar. Para almuezo, nosotros fuimos al restaraunte Heladeria Necochea. Era lo muy bueno. Te recomiedo que tu comprar un sandwich o un hamberguesa. Era delicioso! Tiene lo muchos dulces, helado, y chocolate!!! Despues almuerzo, tomemos un taxi al aeropuerto!

... to go to the hostel, and for the first time in my life I took a ride in a Peugeot 504! More than 20 years ago the Argentinian taxi companies started building fleets of those, which are obviously indestructible given the numbers still on the road, with insane mileages... This model's been produced in Argentina until 2000, years after the end of the European production. Anyway it's funny to take a ride in one of those old indestructible cars. :) After ...

... tres copain avec le mec de Carolina, Chocho, qui n'arrete pas de m'expliquer pourquoi les Peugeots sont les voitures les plus cotees en argentine du fait de leur grande fiabilite et faible cout de reparation. Enfin la je resume vu qu'il est mecano et qu'il m'explique ca en termes techniques auxquels je n'arrive decidement pas a preter attention... Enfin, quand on boit des bieres autour de la finale de foot Boca-Tigre, la on se comprend tout de suite ...

... pesos, bra bra! I naerheten ligger Balcarce, som visst er hjembyen til tidligere verdensmester (5-dobbelt) i bilkjoering (fra 40-tallet hehe), og vi fikk provekjoere banen med leiebilen vaar - artig! Vi hadde vel egentlig ikke trengt aa proeve noe "racetrack", bilfoererne saann ellers i dette landet synes ikke noe om fartsgrenser. Her kjoerer man i gjennomsnitt 40-60 km over det ...

... on the beach walk which have nice and amazing view while eating. I stayed at Hotel Pergamino for 25 ARS. The reception is the most wonderful woman who gives out a lot of tourist information for free. The rooms are mixed with shared bathroom and definitely worth the stay. I took the overnight bus to Puerto Merydin to watch the penguin colony.

... is a lovely guy, hopefully meet up with him again in BA, but - boy! - did he make me feel old. He asked why I had come away to South America and I told him that after ten years working I thought it was time for a break. "You´ve been working for ten years?! What, are you, like, over 30?" scoffed James. Yes, I told him, I have already seen my 30th birthday. "So is this like a mid-life crisis or something?" *Sigh* And then I got the bus to Buenos Aires.

... the street to a pharmacy where I employed my less than stellar Spanish skills to get her some medicine. I'm really glad I took the time to study some Spanish before we got down here. The women at the pharmacy understood what the problem was and were able to get me some medicine and explain the dosage, and the medicine seems to have helped. This afternoon, the very large wedding party including Boo (who is one of the ...

... for 3 nights and we got ourselves and our clothes a good clean. The owners kindly allowed us to stay and use the facilities until our bus at 8pm the next day. Double yay! We went for a walk along the waterfront to see a colony of sea-lions. Unfortunately we underestimated the distance by quite a large factor so after 2 hours we finally got there. The last half hour of the walk wasn't very pleasant as ...