Wilton Palace

... and fill in the sight seeing gaps around Hotel Carson which is right by Florida St, the major closed of street come pedestrian mall. Wilton Hotel allowed me to stay till 11 am to finish uploading the last few entries. A 16 paseo (NZ$5) taxi trip brought ...

... $21 and for staying in a 3 stars hotel which would be considered 1 star in the US!  The funny thing is our hotel was Wilton which we thought would be a sister hotel to Hilton turned out to be squeezed between 2 buildings and was 1 room ...

... minutes at Plaza de Mayo or town square and the Casa Rosada where the President works from. It is also known as the pink palace, Cathedral Metropolitan, Banco de Nacion and Cabildo de Buenos Aires or city hall to you and me. At least I now know where the ...

... . Already hot! About 20 tourist from around the world joined the founder Gaston as he walked down Ave de Mayo towards the Pink Palace pointing out the points of interest. Many of them I had read before hand or heard about them on the previous day’s ...

... tickets but it looked like a rain day so we put our rain jackets on and did a walking tour. We walked past Buckingham Palace again but this time on our way to Piccadilly, Soho, Covent Garden, and Trafalgar Square. We stopped for lunch at ...

... Road to our hotel. Since then we've walked a lot of miles just taking in the sights.  Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, Admiralty Arch, Mayfair, Westminster, and on and on.  First 24 hours were warm but overcast, Today the ...

Saindo de Bs As amanhã, para a Peninsula Valdez, a primeira impressão é a de uma cidade muito mais organizada do que nossas RJ e SP. Largas avenidas planejadas, margeadas por prédios em estilo europeu, comércio de primeira classe. O povo não é ...

Do I have 2 left feet? No! An hour's lesson before dinner and the show depicting how tango styles have changed through the ages. This 280 pesos / US $70 / NZ $ 90 evening was done with Gouwe and some of the GAP’s Classic Antarctica group. ...

Tigre on the cheap! Following Nadia's notes, I made it to Tigre and back for literally only a few pesos. Miscommunication with Gouwe, a fellow GAP traveller who was going to join me today, meant that I got to the Retiro station at 10 am. Brought a 1.10 ...

That was the truly thunderous Foz du Iguacu falls: Portugese when one is on the Brazil side, or Cararates de Iguazu: Spanish when on the Argentina side! Now the short hop from the relative quietness of the World Heritage site to the Paris ...

Another travel day to better forget. It was suppose to be an all day trip out into the country to a fiesta gaucho or a day on a cattle ranch. The voucher had 9.45 - 10.15 pick up. OK that‘s fine. Come 10.30 I asked the hotel to phone the local ...

Not knowing who or what are, I was told that they were alternative theatre, something about performing in water, the audience stood in the centre of the hall and the music … loud. I knew it wasn’t going to be a tango show, opera or ballet ...

Nesta nova fase de BsAs vale a pena ressaltar o passeio ao delta do Tigre, que é, na verdade a confluência do rio Paraná com vários braços de rios como o Tigre e o Sarmiento. A cidade de Tigre é o ponto de veraneio dos porteños, mas fomos durante ...