Rugantino Hotel Buenos Aires

... handed us a key. Over the course of our stay Diana fed us many times, drove us places, let us use her laptop for internet, gave us each a nice bookmark as a gift, and basically made us part of her family. Neither of us have ever experienced this kind of hospitality...ever. We were a nice presence for Diana as well...she was always exclaiming ¨Que lindo!¨ or ¨How nice!.¨

Despite the extreme language barrier (they spoke so fast I couldnt understand), we ...

Buenos F***ing Aires the tee shirt read and I couldn't have agreed more with such a statement during my first few days staying in this Argentine city! On the surface it looked cool, trendy and very European, leaving one to question what continent they were actually on! Avenida de Julio appears to have like 16 lanes in total and crossing it involved a stepwise approach! Our hostel Milhouse served as a shelter on Tuesday, with rain pelting down across the province! We had ...

... s happened or how I can be booked on a flight that doesn't exist but basically it was as though I had missed the flight. They said I should of re-confirmed it the day before as the times may have changed or it may have been cancelled! I haven't re-confirmed any flights up to this point but maybe I have just been lucky. I will make sure I check my flight from bloody Rio that's for sure. Anyway in the end they were able to find a flight for me at 19 ...

... 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 ...

... and one of the widest roads in the world. We had arrived on St Patrick's Day - so I was keen on getting a pint of Guinness at one of the city's Irish pubs. Unfortunately; we'd been running out of steam having done the tour, scouted the shopping district and settling into the hostel - that jet lag got the better of us (plus I'd chosen the one Irish pub in my guide that no longer existed, so we couldn't find it!) We slept in the next day in a bid to stave ...

... the local cinemas. Most of the movies (unless they are animated) are in English with Spanish subtitles, makes going to the movies much easier. We quite enjoyed Benjamin Button. So after a few days of resting we have seen snippets of Tango dancing, the theatre, eaten some steak - not to mention the heart and intestines they also produced with it - and are now ready to tackle the ...

... was a lot. OF course, I started with this WONDERFUL piece of beef (from a 'normal' part of the cow) and thought I was going to die it was so good. But it was a big piece, so I thought I'd give part to someone else, and try other things. Ooops. Won't do that again. It was all fine, but that first piece was definitely the ...

... at home there. Even after her long journey, Penny was up for a trip that afternoon to San Telmo to see the street market & Tango dancing. We took the subway into the Centre (they had hiked the fairs by a massive 37%, from 16p to 22p) then walked up from the Obelisco in the centre of Av 9th de Julio (the widest street in the world) to Plaza de Mayo, past Evita's Casa Rosada & then down to San Telmo. We thus managed to tick the boxes for several tourist ...

... usually dance was empty. Gabriel says it was still too early- it gets busy after 5am here. Needless to say, the other 3 of us weren´t feeling the vibe of the place - a bit too sketchy for my taste at least - and thankfully Gabriel was hungry and asked if we wanted to grab a bite to eat. I gladly feigned hunger as well (most of you know I mostly never eat late nor after going out to the bar) just to get out of happy little "Kim Novac´s¨place =) It was a good call ...

... about it! ;)



We were divided into boys & girls and drilled to learn our steps...





...before being given one last demonstration...



...and then ...