BA for Christmas

Trip Start Jul 02, 2003
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Trip End Jan 17, 2004


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Friday, December 26, 2003

BA for christmas - it was my fourth visit to Buenos Aires and I still love the place - especially so as this time my money was worth about 8 times more than when I last went - last time was just before the currency crash.

I flew in and checked in to the Milhouse hostel which was a really nice friendly hostel right in the middle of town. Given that this was my fourth visit I didn't spend much time sight seeing but instead concentrated on the going out side of things. If you've never been to Buenos Aires you really should go - it must be the most european of the south american cities - comparable in many ways to the best that Spain has to offer.

My lonely planet book says that to even consider going to a night club before 1am in BA is to commit social suicide - they're not wrong. For Christmas eve night the hostel put on a special trip to a local nightclub - they took you down there at 2am with the do party likely to finish around 11am on Christmas day. Unfortunately I missed this as I had to fly on Christmas Day - I wanted to head south to the Lake District - unfortunately it seems that everyone else in Argentina wanted to do the same thing and it was impossible to get a bus down before the middle of January and the only flight I could get was on Christmas Day. So now I'm down south in Bariloche which has a feel about it very similar to Queenstown in New Zealand - will have to see what it has to offer!
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