BA: you don´t stop!
I was gonna upload a photo or 2 until I realised (just now) that we have probably found the joint with the worst internet connection in town and if I try I will probably be here all night, so your just going to have to wait, again.
Buenos Aires on the other hand has completely exceeded our expectations. This place is kick arse! Spent the first 4 nights in that serviced apartment that I was telling you all about but then because we decided to stay here longer we moved out to the burbs, well hardly, to a place known to the locals as Palermo Soho! It´s full of fashion, restaurants, shops, cool stuff & cool people. It´s really leafy compared to the microcenter and is surrounded by parks and trees, unusual for a city this size (9 million) with the lack of cash flow that the country suffers from.
Tango on Friday night was really an awesome experience with live music, singing (not that either of us had a clue what was going on) and of course TANGO. We had a great night, but kept it relatively short as we were quite exhausted. The move occured on Saturday morning before meeting Shotty´s sister Asuka her husband and newborn baby girl Risa for a delicious lunch under the famous balcony where Evita gave a speech to the masses some 50 years ago. (Lilla took about 20 photos of it, bloody japanese tourists)
We headed back to the hostel to meet Martin in this park down the road from us where every weekend they clear out the tables and chairs from the bars that surround the park and set-up temporary clothing shops filled with clothes from young fashion designers trying to get into the big business. Everything was really cheap too but considering my backpack is already exploding i had to hold back. Lil on the other hand made the most of it and had a field day.
Next was drinks and dinner. We were finally able to find a wine bar which I had been searching for since we got here where we enjoyed some fine Argentinian Viognier, before heading to this restaurant at around 10 (empty in comparison to what it was like at 11), that was full of crazy stuff on the walls and that. They also had board games available for use which everyone was getting into so whilst waiting for dinner we were able to sneak in a game of Pictionary. Off to the Congo Bar for drinks and home to bed.
Today was the biggest sleep in we have had since we´ve been here, when we finally rolled out of bed at around 1 and decided to head to Tigre for the day. Tigre is like an outer northern suburb/holiday town of BA situated on a river. We went for a boat ride throughout the river system, not too much unlike in Melbourne on the Yarra, but with all these camping grounds, hotels, cabins and restaurants set-up which were only accesible by boat. What threw us even more was the amount of people in the water swimming. I mean it was a hot day but the water still did not look too appealing if you know what I mean. We checked out some markets, ate some ice-cream before deciding that it was too hot to sit on the hour long train to get back to BA and opted for a chauffered air conditioned vehicle (actually Lilla begged me to take this option, it was pretty hot though - 39C + 65% humidity - and seeing as I had sweated all that I possibly could I couldn´t really argue with her, especially for $15).
Off to Uruguay tomorrow morning to hit the beaches, but I´m gonna miss BA, we could definitely stay here for a while longer and might even look into work opportunities to return once we're bored in the UK.
Buenos Aires on the other hand has completely exceeded our expectations. This place is kick arse! Spent the first 4 nights in that serviced apartment that I was telling you all about but then because we decided to stay here longer we moved out to the burbs, well hardly, to a place known to the locals as Palermo Soho! It´s full of fashion, restaurants, shops, cool stuff & cool people. It´s really leafy compared to the microcenter and is surrounded by parks and trees, unusual for a city this size (9 million) with the lack of cash flow that the country suffers from.
Tango on Friday night was really an awesome experience with live music, singing (not that either of us had a clue what was going on) and of course TANGO. We had a great night, but kept it relatively short as we were quite exhausted. The move occured on Saturday morning before meeting Shotty´s sister Asuka her husband and newborn baby girl Risa for a delicious lunch under the famous balcony where Evita gave a speech to the masses some 50 years ago. (Lilla took about 20 photos of it, bloody japanese tourists)
We headed back to the hostel to meet Martin in this park down the road from us where every weekend they clear out the tables and chairs from the bars that surround the park and set-up temporary clothing shops filled with clothes from young fashion designers trying to get into the big business. Everything was really cheap too but considering my backpack is already exploding i had to hold back. Lil on the other hand made the most of it and had a field day.
Next was drinks and dinner. We were finally able to find a wine bar which I had been searching for since we got here where we enjoyed some fine Argentinian Viognier, before heading to this restaurant at around 10 (empty in comparison to what it was like at 11), that was full of crazy stuff on the walls and that. They also had board games available for use which everyone was getting into so whilst waiting for dinner we were able to sneak in a game of Pictionary. Off to the Congo Bar for drinks and home to bed.
Today was the biggest sleep in we have had since we´ve been here, when we finally rolled out of bed at around 1 and decided to head to Tigre for the day. Tigre is like an outer northern suburb/holiday town of BA situated on a river. We went for a boat ride throughout the river system, not too much unlike in Melbourne on the Yarra, but with all these camping grounds, hotels, cabins and restaurants set-up which were only accesible by boat. What threw us even more was the amount of people in the water swimming. I mean it was a hot day but the water still did not look too appealing if you know what I mean. We checked out some markets, ate some ice-cream before deciding that it was too hot to sit on the hour long train to get back to BA and opted for a chauffered air conditioned vehicle (actually Lilla begged me to take this option, it was pretty hot though - 39C + 65% humidity - and seeing as I had sweated all that I possibly could I couldn´t really argue with her, especially for $15).
Off to Uruguay tomorrow morning to hit the beaches, but I´m gonna miss BA, we could definitely stay here for a while longer and might even look into work opportunities to return once we're bored in the UK.
posted by Sanchez at 12:52 PM
2 Comments:
Fantastic blog. One of the best ones I`ve ran into. Great job. Wish I was there. And I even clicked on some ads for your pocket book. Would you be so kind as to check out my blogs and click on some ads too?
everyone wants to live in buenos aires!
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