Obelisco Republica Hotel Buenos Aires

... de Filosofia y Letras, or campus for philosophy and literature, one of a whopping 13 campuses spread out across the city that together have over 300,000 students enrolled. Filo, as my campus is called for short, is an aging building covering most of an entire city block. The building looks exactly like you would expect a public university built in the 1960’s in Latin America would look like. There is no heat (except in the main offices), things are falling ...

... included a Chinese girl who lived in the States. It was amazing the amount of attention she received from those Argentine guys.. It was funny to think of a Chinese as being so exotic! So to all you girls in Hong Kong and the PRC, Argentina`s the place to be!

I did have a few adventures, one of which was drinking in a hostel until around 4 am, until it was the fashionable time to "go out", but by then I was too tired ...

... life, the immigrants painted their humble homes in bright colors. Today, this neighborhood is called La Boca, literally "the mouth," and is still a poor and colorful neighborhood. However, one small street has achieved the success that the original immigrants were looking for. Caminito, again literally "little street," is the namesake of one of the most famous Tango songs. This, combined ...

... The city has a huge reputation as an all round excellent place to visit, party and live and I hoped it could fulfill expectations. By now Ireland are 3/5 of the way to a Six Nations Grand Slam and Paddy`s Day is just around the corner.. let the party begin!! I rolled into town on Friday on an overnight bus. The standard of buses in Argentina are arguably higher than anywhere else in Latin America and I would say most of the world. I spent a large ...

... around taking photos for a while, wishing my sunglasses hadn't snapped in Peru. The monument was close to the river, so I crossed the road and wandered through the tree-shaded pathways that wound along the river banks. An artisan market was just being set up; obviously I was up a bit earlier than the average Argentinian. I checked out the other two spots pointed out by the hostel guy, both something to do with Che Guevara but not ...

... was cooking. After she texted me the address I had to figure out how to get there-not enough time and too late to walk, and the subways were closed. So I had to get out of my 'I am independent, I am going to figure out what to do because I am too embarrassed about my lack of communication skills to ask' mode and I broke down and asked the doorman, the 'portero' where the bus stop for #37 was. He looked at the map with me and said "No ...

... land souvenirs and a wide selction of Arabic food. In the centre of the park, there was a mock-up of the Wailing wall from Jerusalem, and next to this was a display of belly dancing and some Arabic music, which the crows was loving. When you say themepark, you kind of expect it to be something like Alton Towers or Chessington, but unfortunately the Tierra Santa park had no crazy rides or action packed attractions, only some very tacky biblical mock-ups, so overall it was ...

... Then came the tango singer, who, judging by the reaction of the Argentines in the audience was well known and a bit of a comedian was a real character and held the whole show together. At the end of the show the concertina guy, a real virtuoso and well into his 70s got the longest ovation by far and seemed a bit overwhelmed by it. All in all a great night and so much better than at least I was expecting. Not long after we arrived in the city we met ...

... culo de calle donde 2 increíbles bailarines de tango nos mostraban todas las variedades con un pequeño relato de la historia de este baile tan sensual. Por si no sabéis comenzó en los burdeles de Buenos Aires. Conocimos Boca, un lugar muy conocido por sus casas pintorescas, aunque demasiado turístico, y el nuevo Puerto Madero, donde los almacenes de ladrillo rojo al borde del Rio de la Plata se convirtieron en modernas viviendas. En el barrio donde estábamos alojados, Palermo ...

... we've got it sorted, even if we didn't have enough cash to book the tickets today. We'll head back tomorrow I think, just to make sure.

After that we took the subway back into Palermo, where we've just found an internet place because the "free internet" advertised by our hostel is, as ...