Puerto Carpincho Tigre

Reaching the end of my time in Buenos Aires. Have been here for 6 days and it is a fantastic city. Have been very lucky to meet some fantastic people who have made my time so much fun.
Highlights of the past few days have been...

Meeting Ben, my new Australian friend. We´ve been staying the same hostel and spending time together which has been great!

Hanging out in San Telmo market, an antiques ...

... An older guy next to me taught me how to say Ace, and I found myself chanting "aaass" with him. In exchange, I had him high-fiving! Eventually, some younger guys were across the table and came over to say hola. They were from Israel, spoke English, and were traveling around after finishing their Army service (My friend Victor had told me this was quite popular for the Israeli young adults). I realized I had missed having a conversation ...

... compagnies de bateaux qui proposent des tours de quelques heures dans les canaux et nous embarquons pour une petite croisière improvisée. Nous faisons un tour en bateau dans le delta de la rivière dans l'après-midi. L'eau de la rivière est semblable à du café au lait et apparemment fort polluée. Il faut du courage pour s'y baigner mais les températures caniculaires de l'été persuadent bon nombre de locaux de se jeter à l'eau. Nous terminons la journée dans un restaurant italien de choix ...

... considering that it's a big cafe/bar/restaurant/shopping neighbourhood. A waiter pointed me to the nearest ATM, which ended up being at a service station four blocks away from Palermo's main street. I arrived to find that the ATM had no cash - this shouldn't have been all that surprising, given that it's the only ATM around for blocks! It ended up being a comedy of errors - getting to the service station required crossing the ...

Normal 0 Day 14: Sunday, November 16, 2008 Late morning on Sunday, Katerina, Evelie, Ann and I took a taxi to a street fair held every Saturday and Sunday called Feria de Mataderos. There were a number of vendors selling merchandise, some of it great quality, some of it not. This was a great day to finish up our souvenir purchases. Vendors also sold meat grilled on the street. You could purchase a choripan (sausage), pancho (hot dog) or an empanada ...

... the location designated by the Buenos Aires chapter of Democrats Abroad, which was a place called "Sacramento Bar" in Palermo. The energy was great. It was PACKED with Americans of all ages, and we couldn't even find a place to sit when we got there at 9:00 pm. Since we couldn't find a place to sit, we decided to camp out right in front of the projector where they were broadcasting the CNN results all night. This was kind of uncomfortable ...

... crisis of Argentina at the time. 2 years later the employees returned to open the business on their own, the struggle was immense and Maria explained her experience during this time. She spoke of the permanent employees putting up their own houses as collateral in order to pay for the hotel to stay open. The place was in shambles and room by room, these few employees began to put it back together. They worked with local business to host ...

... first foreign train journey since India, and altogether a far more pleasant experience. Train a bit grotty, but with as many beggars, tut sellers and musicians as passengers, but at least they weren´t offensive and one group of musicians had us all dancing in our seats. The return journey was 2.2 pesos (about 35p). We took a boat trip along the Delta - a maze of ...

... most amazing and suckiest experience of my life. Hah, holy ****, I can`t explain to you how bad I just want to scream at everyone and tell them that they are completely playing like labotomy patients and that they are all stupid ****ing morons. It`s like in the movie Beautiful Girls, where Michael Rappaport says "it`s like the retarded kid who doesn`t know that he`s retarded, so he`s perfectly content". This is the perfect quote for this most mind ...

... itself, we stopped in San Isidro. This beautiful little town is well worth spending time to poke around. It has a beautiful neo-gothic cathedral, a quaint chopping area, and many beautiful large houses. One of the most famous being the home Juan Martin de Pueyrredon. It was here that Pueyrredon and San Martin met to discuss their independence. The town of ...