First stop - Buenos Aires...a city just like any other city i.e. physcologically disturbed steet people, bums, rip off taxi drivers, our first impression was mixed. We were thankful to the family who helped us with the menu on our first night, evident that Spanish lessons probably would have been an idea back at home, we pulled tables together shared food and broke bread - this would never happen in a million years with total strangers at home! There was a hell of a lot of garbage on the sidewalks, the few less fortunate would tear open garbage bags, make a bigger mess and collect cardboard for which they could recycle for cash. We stayed at Tango & Bandonean...which was, interesting. The worlds smallest blonde Argentinian old lady named Rosa (equipped with fluffy slippers and rollers in hair) answered the door, spoke no word of engligh and held 50 sets of keys, heavier than her hands could handle.The hostel smelt strangly like Ma's old house (my gran who once had a 50's style Avalon house...very cool), we felt like we were in someones home, this was great until we had our 'big night' out...courtesy of a visit from Tom and Chris Morgan (the Morgo's, Russ mates from home, no relation fyi)...
We really got this one out of our system, the night resulted in 'letting ourselves in' to a local carnival park, thinking we had the place to ourselves, made the most out of the merry-go-round, spell house, donkey rides etc, I thought it was a great idea to get some electical power happenin, brighten the place up so I poked my head into a ticket box where I startled a sleeping worker, we were chased out abruptly! We then proceded to head to parliment house for a game of handball doubles and climb some city statues until the sun came up and we went back to the hostel, we were like naughty kids, dragging ourselves in at 9am, the hostel people were a little suss at our antics...honestly the best night I've has in ages!
Overlooking the rubbish there are beautiful parts of Buenos Aires; San Telmo Antiques disctict, La Boca for its coloured houses and Palermo - Surry Hills style bars and restaurants...
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