Tailor Made Hotel Buenos Aires

... say it was never used in combat which explains its longevity. There was some type of reunion on the boat and we caught the exit of a few generals or corporals - whoever they were they were important.




We then met up with ...

... Soho, which is basically the young, hip new area of Bs As, and after a traditional lunch of steak on a plate, I nap in a bunk bed for the first time since I was a weeblow scout. The first roomate I meet is a young guy from Oregon named Jackson, who is on his way to Patagonia to work on a farm for 6 months in the middle of nowhere... Not to be one upped by the first person I meet, I tell him that I am just stopping through before I cross the Andes by foot with ...

... and change! How can they have no coins but charge something that demands coins!? It is a horrible cycle, and it is ridiculous how happy we all get when we get our hands on coins so we can take the bus. Right now, my change purse is actually almost full!! What a treat!!

Last weekend I went on a planned GW trip which means, nice hotel and all meals covered at nice restaurants… what could be better? We flew up north to a city ...

... volcano with "molten" fudge in the center and home-made ice cream on the side. Needless to say, we left holding our sides.

Sunday morning we will check out of the hotel, check out a famous Sunday morning street market in San Telmo Barrio and get ready to head to the airport. We leave South America feeling fulfilled and blessed for the opportunity to see the sights cultures and peoples we have seen. This trip was an amazing experience that both of us will never forget.

Enjoyed a quick and easy flight with a 15 minute period of turbulents which weren´t great but Qantas pulled right through! Two movies, about 6 CD´s and 7 doccumentaries later we arrive. So this is a bit of a blast from the past for me, not my city of preference but still a familiar land on the other side of the world. We are met by TAM airways who escorts us through ...

... in toate culorile, varstele, stadiile de greutate. Este ridicat la statutul de zeu aici. Afise cu ´´In acest magazin nu vor fi acceptate vorbe urate la adresa lui Maradona´´. Din loc in loc, tiganushi ca la noi ne intrebau dc nu vrem bilete la meciul de maine. La oficial au fost sub 100 de pesos, acum sar de 500. Ne-am intors mai in centru si am pornit-o pe jos pana la Plaza del Mayo, unde este Casa Rosada, am vazut cred ca toate MInisterele din Argentina. Ne-am dus la Boquebus - in port ...

... into the crowd, then as the players came on, the whole crowd opened the rolls of paper and threw at the same time as close to the pitch as possible, it was a really cool sight to see, the whole place was covered in streamers. Then for the second half they handed out red plastic bags which you could blow up so there were thousands of those as well being thrown everywhere. Independiente won 2-0, which was a big upset cos Boca are top of the league and ...

... girl on reception at the hostel had very little English so I couldn`t make myself understood enough for her to answer all my questions about the lessons) so I ended up deciding that an early night wouldn`t hurt me and that sometimes things just don`t work out the way you would hope when on the road. Sigh. Today has been a bit of a filler day with Anthea heading to Jurrasico Mundo (Jurassic World) a random park/display with animatronic dinosaurs while I attempted to find ...

... and the gold decorations are beaming.   It is a beautiful sunny day and we think it is time to sit down and just enjoy being in Buenos Aires. We're not quite ready for any heavy duty siteseeing.   We find a newspaper stand directly across the street from the Pilar Church and purchase a Buenos Aires Herald, an English newspaper, and a copy of La Nacion, a Spanish newspaper.   Right on that corner is La Biela Café, an ...

I certainly can't consider myself any kind of jazz expert, so the Buenos Aires Jazz Fest was as much of an educational experience as anything. The banjo was the first lesson. I was never really sure of how it was used before Earl Scruggs turned it into a picking machine. I assumed it was used in old-time pre-bluegrass 'string bands', but that's about all. Being too lazy to Wiki the mother, I really had no idea that it was a jazz instrument. But sure ...