Wednesday, January 18, 2006

An extra day in Buenos Aires (16-18/Jan/06)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Turns out there is a 60km/h gale blowing round Peninsula Valdes Wednesday, so we got an extra night at the hostel in Buenos Aires to avoid fishing our tent out of the sea. Monday we bought tickets for tomorrow's sleeper bus and then went shopping for a mobile doen the main shopping street, Florida. We now have a PhD in Argentinian mobile phones, but finally managed to buy one - number in the column to the right. Whenever we change country we'll buy a new SIM card and put the new number there as well.

Started to take budgeting seriously. Acording to the guide and our plans we are supposed to survive in Argentina on $20/day/person, wich turns out to be roughly 120 pesos. We are hitting 100 pesos OK, which leaves only 20 for transport and exras like tours, so we'll have to try and cut it even finer. No doubt camping and being out of the capital will help, and getting to know the local rip-offs. Monday night went way over budget as they did a party at the hostal, but nearly recovered it all today.

Tuesday, after the hangover, we bought some vegetables (at last, green food!) at the supermarket and had a picnic in one of the parks. Then we joined a free Spanish tour of the cementery in Recoleta (where, you guessed it, Evita was buried). After that we walked to the "bohemian neighbourhood of Palermo, with it's cobbled street" where we didn't see a single bohemian and only a glimpse of half a cobbled street. The central square there is very nice though, surrounded by bars, cafes and terraces, so we had to stop for a quick bottle of wine. After that we took out first tube (called subte here) back home, and now to bed...

1 Comments:

At 6:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

kewl. snowing here in Tokyo. eat lots of beef, must be great there. unless you're hindu (didnt stop Joshi) or vegetarian...

Yann

 

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