Buenos Aires

We arrived in Buenos Aries on Tuesday morning after a fifteen and a half hour flight(for some reason we thought the flight was only twelve hours!!).It was twenty two degrees when we arrived so needless to say we dropped our bags off at the hostel and found a bar with a beer garden!.We spent a couple of days chilling out,getting over the jet lag and sussing out this amazing city. Buenos Aries is a fantastic city like no city i have ever been in the streets are so wide (even wider than the Avenues in New York)and constantly buzzing with people,everything stays open almost twenty four hours,the bars till six!.Then just a few blocks away is the old part of the city,amazing you would think you were in another part of the world its full of tiny streets with really brightly panited old wooden houses.

The hostel we are staying at is called Downtown Mate (pronounced matae)which is the tradational drink in Argentina really bizzare its like ground leaves they put in a litte wooden cup and drink through a straw, it tastes like a really strange tea people here carry around the wooden cup everywhere they go with a thermos flask of water to keep topping it up!! Malcolm is addicted already.The people in the hostel are fab and give free spanish lessons(very useful)although the hostel its self is pretty basic (no locks on shower doors!)

We took a day trip to Uruguay on saturday which was fab,It only took a couple of hours by boat and wasnt that expensive either. We hired out a scooter and went all around the town of Colonia really old town on the coast breath taking views and beautiful beaches.On Sunday we went to the tradational market in San Thelmo which was fab hundreds of stall selling beautiful crafts and art had to restrain myself from buying stuff as wont be able to carry it!!Will post some photos soon.