Reconquista Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires

... sorry for me. This driver had been such a big help in getting everything worked out that I just threw the fair on the seat and walked away, he had earned it. Eight hours later I was home and had the vitamins.<br><br><br>In different places I have been cheated, over charged, scammed, had money stolen (in a 5 star hotel no less), but never ever been told I had to pay a bribe. I now feel a little like I have graduated from the school of world travel.

... br>The hotel has a 24 hour breakfast policy, so i had mine for lunch. Unfortunately i couldn´t find the Scottish game anywhere, but they lost anyway. Had my first taste of Argentinian beef for dinner - un-be-****ing-lievable, and only about eight euros for, like, half a cow. Watched the Argentina game back in the hotel with a few others - oh dear another defeat for ´God´, and now in danger of missing out in a world cup final for the first time since 1970 ...

... truly as stupendous as everything I´ve heard and read it was, even if the weather does not cooperate (it was cloudy and rainy the entire time, with thunderstorms and power outtages thrown in).<br><br>We took an overnight bus back to Buenos Aires, which is a popular and nice way to travel in Argentina. Now we are in the Recolleta district, and headed for Uraguay today.

... will instead travel to Salta at 4p today, arriving 11a the next day. i am traveling semi-cama (business class?) a little extra room but not full ´ejectivo´. The plan now is to move north slowly thourgh Jujuy, Quebrada de Humahuaca, then cross the border to Bolivia and hopefully time the train properly (since it seems to only run twice per week) the salt flats of Uyunni. quick observation: i went ...

Not much to report today. I am feeling a little better and managed two pieces of pizza for lunch. We had a walk around the town again and popped into the post office to send off our Uruguay postcards. We then hung around in the hostel courtyard, in the lovely weather, playing cards, reading and catching up with the blog. A very chilled day. We walked down to the ferry port at about 5 ...

... me for a few days so we have the luxury of twin room rather than the dorm. The hostel is really cool, clean, friendly and in a great location. We dropped our bags off and went for a stroll to get our bearings. Stumbled across the marina by the river with it's swish bars and restaurants and returned to the hostel for a relaxing afternoon after stuffing our faces at an all you could eat buffet for less than 4 quid! I'll defiantly be back, will be a good and cheap way of putting some ...

... buy books to travel with. H and I move hotels to San Telmo as its really cool there, the boho part of town, we swank it up for a couple of nights in Hotel Babel and then onto the Art House Hostel, which has all the rooms designed by artists, most have murals on the walls. We stay in space invader room!! San Telmo has loads of independent shops and i get sucked into buying another two dresses...which brings my total up to 4...unbelievevable, don´t think ...

... as we didn´t know how to tango so we left and decided to check out another popular street for shopping called Florida street- best known as a pedestrian only street with tons of stores including: leather goods; shoes; clothing for men, women, children; sports and futbal related stores; accessories; souvenirs; and of course food establishment &amp; cafes. In fact, cafe´s are everywhere in Argentina! They grace corner after corner, street after street and many of them ...

... the block and we are talking about what looks like a security station but with no one inside and then we look back and see that we just passed the other synagogue! It is another nondescript building, with no adornment whatsoever, just a granite front with a Jewish star over the door. We are somewhat stunned. Security is clearly an issue here as in Israel. We wonder what it is like to have to live with such security. We find a taxi ...

What a great trip. We loved Mendoza and now we were back in B.A. We now have too much luggage for a regular taxi, so we are obliged to take a "remise" just like the one we took from the airport. It sunk us a staggering US$ 5.50 for four persons and a pile of luggage. We almost felt like giving the driver another US$ 5.00 as a tip, but we controlled our emotions and gave him US$ 2.00 (which he was most happy with). Today is Cecilia's day ...