Regente Palace Buenos Aires

... This is not necessarily either a good thing or a bad thing; rather, it’s just a thing.

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but the meals have been absolutely wonderful. Lunch and dinner are always large, heavy, delicious, stick-to-your-rib-make-you-un-button-yo ur-pants kind of meals. Lots of bread, pasta, potatoes, and meat are always served. Since there is so long between each meal, you come to ...

... late afternoon showered and had a rest and then had a little stroll in the evening up the pedestrian Avenue Florida and had spectacularly tender steak for dinner.

On Wednesday we decided to visit the Reserva Ecologica Costanera Sur to have a bit of green and we had the most fabulous few hours. We saw maybe 15 different species of birds and some of them were crazy and like nothing we'd seen before – like caracaras! So we did a long five mile ...

... dish in sight, and it is not uncommon to proceed either directly from the restaurant to bed or to the bars well after midnight. Restaurants are also cheap. Not necessarily backpacking-around-the-world-I-just-got -here-from-Asia cheap, but cheap. An average first class steak is in the neighborhood of USD10-15. A damn good bottle of wine is USD4-8. If you are a wage earning professional in NYC or London, BA is paradise ...

... also been to the market in San Telmo which was exactly like I imagined it. Lots of stuff nobody will ever need and absolutely endless! Masses of streetartists and musicians and hardly any room to move... I loved it :D There was even a guy who just threw paint at a huge sheet and every now and again wiped it in some places, and suddenly out of nowhere a portrait had appeared! Amazing talent:P I can hardly remember what else I have done, I´ve done and seen soo much! I´ve visted the ...

... there were some great opps to get some funky things for your home. If you watched antiques roadshow you probably would have found some fantastic bargain worth $10,000 but it all looked the same to us... no bargains to be found. They had old gramaphones and cool old fashioned teapots. We also got to see lots of old war artifacts like swords and helmets from the Spanish conquistadors. Very cool. It was quite touristy with busy little ...

... to pick us up at the bus stop. Although we don't really have any hard-and-fast plans yet, we'll probably spend the weekend in Montevideo, then head east towards the beaches. It's hard being in a city when it's this hot out! I know this entry is unforgiveably short, but you'll have to bear with us and accept some pictures instead. Hasta luego, Chris and Alyssa

... with blue lights and white fluffy mirror covers, playing latin reggae, was on his way out and we hitched a ride back into safety on this pimped out bus =) We made it home safe another half hour later and surprisingly this bus also ended up dropping us off right across the street from Fede´s apartment. Last night Roxy and I finally experienced our first night out at a club, since leaving Edmonton. At 2 am, Federico took us to a place called Wet Bar in the Palermo ...

... with glass doors!!! Incredible. It was similar to the cemetery in Paris, La Pere Lachaise, but the one in Paris is much more beautiful with tons of overhanging trees making the whole cemetery really dark on a blindingly sunny day. The Paris cemetery is like walking into a chilling forest of monsters and adventures. Anyway, back to Chile! Evita is buried here with her family and there were lots of flowers spread about. We went to the cinema one night and saw the new James Bond film ...

... would have to flag down a cab to carry me the last few blocks since I didn't know where the hostel was (or myself, for that matter). But a passing senor stopped and helped me lug my stuff to the hostel, only 4 blocks as it turned out. My bus ride was about $1.50, give or take, and I was treated to a wonderful sightseeing tour of the city. Since I had come to BsAs with the intent of residing in an apartment, my packing reflected such. I can imagine the ...

... tickets for their game on Sunday v Colon Sante Fe!

After the stadium we got back onto the #29 bus and headed back into the centre of the city for some lunch.

After lunch we walked back to ...