Apart Hotel Bosch Buenos Aires

... but as expected it is closed, so I find another coffee shop for a second breakfast.
This is a small place so all I have to do is wait for the bus at 14:15. I eventually find an internet cafe open and catch up on the old blog but have not brought anything to download the pictures.
It will probably be after the holiday before I can do that.
When the bus leaves there are only two ...

How Rubbish am I?? Just realised that the blog hasn´t been written since July and Santiago Getting terribly drunk and melancholy listening to live chilean music with Ryan in Valparaiso; getting drunk again with Dipti at a boutique winery by 11am; sinking a bottle of ...

... like a canteena that was full of locals rather than some posh place designed for tourists. We ordered a bottle of red wine, and bottle of coke and a steak each. I had mine with steamed veg and a side order of mash (as I hadn't had mash in 4 months). The meal was lovely but I think the chef had slipped with the salt when he was doing the mash as it was really salty and ruined the whole mash experience for me. After dinner we ...

... included and fantastic meal. It consisted of two bottles of wine, 2 empanadas each for starter, the biggest and most amazing steak I've ever had for main course and white chocolate mousse with strawberry sauce for dessert! Brilliant! Then it was showtime. It was a fantastic 2 hour tango show that included music, singing and dancing. They even got me & Lorna up doing a bit of dancing...it gave me a chance to feel up the fit local dancers I ...

... 13mm, so 1 out of 3 Argentines is a porteno (people of the port). The third largest city of South America, BA (as every foreigner and ex-pat calls it) is incredibly sprawling with the beautiful and wealthy neighborhoods bordering the massive Rio de la Plata. The city lies on the southern coast of the wide mouth of the river (Boca del Rio, which explains why the two main football clubs are Boca Juniors and River Plate ...

... aswell as a simcard he still had... My luck had changed! :D Dinner was great if late, starting at 22.30... Alex´s girlfriend and her children were all lovely, I got an extensive tour of the house from Augus the moment I got in, including an explanation of all the photo´s in the house and the boiler room:P And Roni... Roni is a Yorkshire terrier and the male version of Lola... He´s adorable! Apart from the fact that he keeps humping his blanket:P I also ...

... leafy parks North West of the centre, for less than what a hostel would have cost us. The location was perfect as even though BA is a very big city, most sights and events happen in the central or downtown area which is only a few metro stops from Palermo. We spent the first day exploring the neighbourhood and had dinner in one of the many fancy restaurants in Palermo SOHO. I was very excited about being in BA as it is so much more sophisticated that the other South ...

... bikes have been confirmed as having left Sydney, so on Monday we can start the process of getting them out of customs. At last some progress. One annoying habit of some local waiters in the touristic establishments such as airports is the practice of serving you an overpriced beer or a coffee and presenting the receipt saying "service is not included". We tip with dinners, and if the service is good then we leave the odd peso or two for the cafe waiters. But when the concept of ...

... a few broken coffins with their contents exposed! The dead however, are not the only residents as the entire place is teeming with cats and we see a few local women setting out bowls of food for them all around the cemetery. The dead buried here include the great,the good and the not so good of Argentina including many ex- presidents whose names are familiar from the street names, bank presidents (surely not the most popular at the moment!) and ...

... to be my favourite player in the world who doesn't wear the red of Liverpool.

They have a really cool photo gallery which shows every player to have represented the Boca first team, which is a ...