Buenos Aires 2 - What we did

Trip Start Nov 01, 2006
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Trip End Mar 26, 2007


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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Having stayed in a few quiet enough hostels on the trip up to this point we reckoned Buenos Aires was the place to push the boat out and get ourselves booked into a īparty hostelī. The Millhouse is pretty much regarded as THE party hostel in BsAs so we booked in there. It turned out to be a real disappointment. The staff werenīt overly friendly unless they were trying to sell you an organised tour and the whole vibe wasnīt really to our taste. We did meet a few sound enough people there but in general there were a lot of assholes of the īto cool for schoolī variety. At this point Paul was pretty sick aswell and not able to booze at all (after an abortive attempt to do so the first night) so that probably didnīt help things either. Lucikly enough we had only been able to book there for three nights so on the Sunday after a particularly heavy night I was left with the task of finding a roof over our heads while Paul went off to watch the final league game of the season between Boca Juniors and Lanus in the famous Bombanera stadium 1 Lady in Red is dancing with me
1 Lady in Red is dancing with me
 . There are no pictures of this on the blog because someone swiped the camera out of Paulīs hand while we was getting a picure of some crazy fan jumping around waving his shirt around his head before the game had even started. In the end Paul lost one Canon Powershot SD500 camera and Boca lost a 1-0 lead and the game 2-1 when they only needed a draw to win the league. *
The only highpoint of the day was that after several hours sweating it our in an Internet cafe I discovered there was a hostel around the corner called The Clan and it turned out to be great. The staff there were sound. Nela in particular who had a very Irish sense of humour and is actually going to live in Ireland in February with her Irish boyfriend. The other girl working there was also going out with an Irish lad and unfortunately there wasnīt a third so Paul couldnīt complete the Irish hat trick. The place wasnīt as modern or fancy as the Millhouse but it was just really chilled to the extent that the people staying there sat around reception drinking beer with the staff, putting music videos on Youtube (Streams of Whiskey by the Pogues has to be checked out) and buzzing people in and out while the staff were off on the phone! I took a Spanish course for the week I was there which was good. Paul to a trip up to Iguazu to see the waterfalls and came back with his drinking hat on. In the meantime I was buzzing off a few lads from Cork who pointed out that a bottle of vodka in the local supermarket was the equivalent of 1.80. Turned out that rum was the same so it was happy days then. The nightclubs in BsAs are huge affairs with capacity of thousands, one of them is called Opera Bay and is modelled on the Sydney Opera House. Details of the inside of the place are sketchy though! After a tough week we knew it was time for a detox so we booked a flight booked right down to El Calafate in Southern Patagonia. A break from the booze and the steaks was just what the doctor ordered at that stage (literally in Paulīs case!).
* Boca had a playoff game against Estudiantes the following Wednesday in which they again surrendered an early lead to lose 2-1 and hand Estudiantes the championship.
Paul bought another camera paying about 600 euro for the same type his previous one that would have cost about half that on the internet. Three days later someone bumped into him in a nightclub and said camera went flying on the ground where the lens got all bent out of shape. Needless to say he was not a happy camper. Now that the football season is over Paul is hopefull that the correllation between 2-1 Boca loses and his camera incidents may be at an end.....
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