Telmho Hotel Boutique Buenos Aires

... stremed in the La Boca faithful, the blue and yellow banners and streamers, umbrellas you name it...the party had begun. Well it would have begun if it werent for a small celebration ceremony for one Mr Del Potro who is a mad Boca fan and happened to win the US Tennis Open a few days earlier. After much rapture the singing and the game itself finally began. After five minuts Boca basically scored an own goal which truely exemplified the belief that this was much more about the experience ...

... but I should share something with you. I am more scared of juvenile delinquents than I am of grown-up assailants. Kids don´t have a proper sense of consequences. I reckon they would just whack you for the fun of it. Also, you can´t defend yourself against twelve year olds. Can you really imagine clocking some little ******* in the face? Much as they may deserve it, it would be a hard thing to do. And chances are you would bring down masses of older brothers/fathers should you ...

... of Florida Street. It was great! A few observations, now that I've been in Argentina a few days: The Spanish is much tougher to understand than the Spanish spoken in Chile. It's faster, and the accent is weird. My Spanish isn't nearly as good as I thought it was, and I think it's getting worse by the day. (On the other hand, my Hebrew keeps improving by leaps and bounds, thanks to all the Israeli travellers I keep meeting everywhere ...

... are like Barcelona ladies!! Ha! ;-) Dancing to all the cheezy tunes till about 4am. And that´s lightweight!!! Have met loads of cool people so far who we have been out with. Found ourselves at a house party on the rooftop of BA flat overlooking the city. DJ pumping out the tunes on the terrace and garage 5 floors below made in to a dingy basement club rocking out the dirty tunes. Awesome! Went along to the weekly street market on Sunday ...

... Then the door opened. Oh my God, we are going to jump off a plane! We slide slowly to take position at the door and he instructs me to put my feet on the ledge outside the plane. There is nothing below us! It then hits me.. I'm jumping off a plane! And I am paying for this!?!? What was I thinking!?!? I couldn't but close my eyes.. my fear of heights took the best of me. But after a few seconds I opened them and ...

... spectacles sons et lumieres sur la creche ou la creation du monde tres impressionnants... Le tout dans un jerusalem reconstitue avec ses marchands, ses habitants et meme ses bars !! Pourtant les gens viennent ici de maniere tres religieuse, posent des cierges devant les saints, se signent en rentrant dans les fausses eglises, il y a meme des soeurs. Le ...

... process of flagging down an Argentine server. Once Evan finally made eye contact with one of the beautiful Camareras, he made the "check please" motion in the air. While this motion (where one pretends to write a note in the air while mouthing "the check" in the appropriate language) is universal, it is funny to see the finer points of each nation's technique. Unlike the US, where the customer makes a quick squiggle in the air...Argentines appear to write complete ...

... when, or if, you will see them again! Just will have to make a trip to Holland at some point to make sure I can see Meriam! The next day I went to Tigre, which is an hour train ride from BA. The round trip ticket was AR$2.20, so cheap! Tigre is a town that is surrounded by these deltas. Went on a tour with two women, Anna from Holland and Sylvia from Colombia. They met 25 years ago when Anna was traveling in Colombia. So, it is possible to stay in touch ...

... city of town. The Estoril came highly recommended and it was suggested I request the Dome room on the top of the roof. It has a domed roof (hence the name) decorated with stars and a chandelier, really nice by most hostel standards. The terraces are great for hanging out and meeting people too, really lovely hostel on two floors of an old tennenment building. Buenos Aires is huge with many different districts to explore. I took ...

What a city.... its massive!! <br><br>We spent a week in BA mainly just wandering around and shopping - our clothes were falling apart at this stage so we replaced some and naturally we wanted new stuff too :)<br><br>We went to the Recoletta (spelling) cemetery whcih is full of masoleums for various Argentinian familys, Evita is buried here and it was actually either her birthday or anniversary the day before we went and the aisle where she is ...