Parana Hotel Plaza Jardin

... and technology was more and more a key factor for all kinds of productions, our country -who acknowledged that- began to develop the best possible machinery for our field production. However the first big input in this field came from abroad. The United States, who were also developing at a incredibly high range their field had come up with the world 's most efficient tractor. Massey, Ferguson, John Deere, Henry Ford, are just some of ...

... hours of noon and six. Of course, if you wanted to get anything accomplished in this time frame, you´ll only be laughed at for your efforts, cause it´s siesta time. The further north (hotter places) we´ve travelled in Argentina, the longer the siesta period stretches, and the more draconian the local businesses become about it. Up here in Santa Fe (capital of Santa Fe province), even the grocery stores close for ...

... didn't feel like my Spanish was good enough if I was to succeed. But disregarding all of that, I went to a cabinet, where there are rows of little booths with a phone inside (private). If there are problems, like you don´t know the area code, or the country code, or all of the above, the people behind the counter can help out. Surprisingly on my first attempt, my call went thru, I was able ...

... as conformed as the one in uruguay. To make the bus thing even more enjoyable Its written in Spanish hand writing. Which brings me to a lil thing i´d like to mention, IF your spanish is ok but you like to get things written out to double check be sure to know that latin people write a fair bit differntly there numbers, and love to abriviate there already complicated hand writting... Tomorrow So tomorrow i get to putz the day away waiting for 7 ...

... All they serve is hamburgers, choripan, and fries. Friday, Carme showed me around the town. I went with her to do various errands: pick up stuff for her mother, find a birthday gift for Sofi, etc. For lunch Verónica set out a huge meal of meat, roasted vegetables, cabbage salad and fruit for dessert. It was healthy and delicious. Both Verónica and Bernardo work at an industrial company that makes huge containers, like ginormous sized ones. I'm almost positive Bernardo was ...

Back again, quick, but we´ve had a great morning doing very little except communicating and learning. After a dust, grime and fume ridden walk to the bus station it was good to stop and thank the girl who directed us to our current ´home´ yesterday. She was just as helpful today and we now have bus tickets for Concordia, a stopping off point before crossing to Uruguay. It sounds a massive ...

Three weeks into our travels and here are some points that have made our wanderings interesting. The big cities here are easy for strangers to this big country, even with the language difficulties. Most places are set out in checkerboard fashion, roads are mainly one way where the traffic flows up to six abreast through coordinated traffic lights at speeds that suit Brands Hatch. The numerous taxis and buses stop at the intersections where crowds pour to get on , off or out ...

I got up early to meet Julie and Bernd at the Europcar station, where we picked up our rental car - a Chevrolet Corsa, brand new. It was quiet easy to drive out the city as there was not much traffic on this Saturday morning. We took the highway to Santa Fe and stopped in Parana for a sandwich. The landscape we saw was honestly not very exciting. Just the ...

... and toto (friend of mati`s fam) recruited matias to play as goali, learning to salsa dance with german, adrian (another cousin), toto and their crazy friend diago, touring the sights of Rosario... but most of all many many laughs... often at the expense of us and our bad-non existant spanish!!! what a fabulous introduction to argentina!!!

... aristocratic family called Lopez. There was a good collection of colonial furniture. We then headed to another "old" building - this time more reconstruction than original - the guy on the door was sooooo friendly and chatted to us for a while and tried to find an English brochure for us. They even let us stay inside after the closing time while we finished looking round. The highlight of the museum was the gaucho (cowboy) chair made entirely out of ...