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Bob and Nicks excellent adventures
Another 20 hour bus ride took us to the bright lights of Buenos Aires. The bus journey went by without misadventure. Luckily enough we met a couple of guys on the bus who had been reccommended a hostel in Bs As so we decided to go along with them to a hostel in the centre of town. Bs As is ####### massive and there are swarms of people everywhere, mainly trying to sell some substandard goods in the middle of the street. Theres not too much to say on the sightseeing front really, its a big city, and as with most big cities there are the usual things to see and do, although we did go down to a nearby market which was pretty good, didnt buy much, but it was good to wonder around. Also in the same part of town theres a #### off cemetry that you can go and wonder round and thats a pretty cool place, enormous graves, not stones but about a million tombs of various shapes and sizes. Its like a labarynth of death!!
The most interesting aspect of BsAs has got to be when the sun goes down. You here about it being a party town but really it takes the piss!!!
The evening after the bus ride and we were pretty knackered but the hostel we were staying in was starting to get bustling, and it turns out that they organise buses out to the best clubs in town. Your only in Bs As once in your life so it seemed rude not to go out. So we headed out for a steak at a restaurant that boasts that their steaks are so tender they can cut them with a spoon....and they do......but they werent as good as weve had.......and then we got down to a little pre-party beer drinking. We got talking to a couple of guys that were sharing our room...a couple of hackney boys.....as well as a nutcase of a scotsman whod been travelling on and off since 1994 and wanted to organise some go carting for the next day, needless to say it never happened.
Yeah, so next comes the apparentness of the party capital, when the underground is closing at 2 or 3, that is when everyone in Bs As is just preparing to go out, its craaaaazzzzy. So it got to about 2 in the morning, and that was the time that the bus came and picked us all up. A real contrast between the hostels in Nzealand and here, in that in NZ you have to be quiet by about 11pm...here everyone is drinkiing and ####### about in the hostel until god knows what time.
A 20 minute bus ride git us to "sunset"..the place to be on a Friday night!!! Got ourselves a G and T and scouted the area out. Personally, i enjoyed the music, a nice mix of argentinian pop with a reall urban flavor..very much to my tastes!
Its a pretty funny place which started off with trannies and blokes dancing on the stage with loads of women jumping up to join them, needless to say we werent enjoying that much...but then...seemingly fron nowhere, three dancers got up onto the bar and started grooving anda grinding...which was nice.
After that it was time to get our own dancing feet on and get into the fray. There were #### loadsa chicas in there, and so it was decided that it was about time that we made some sort of effort with them....and would you believe.....it all went swimmingly. I utilised my vast Spanish knowledge to say "quieres bailar?" which is "do you want to dance?" and the reply was "yes, If you give my friend a cigarette"...so it seems that that is all it takes...easy as pie. So there we were, each with our own Aregntinian chica!!!Now you all know how hard it is to talk to anyone in a club with the music banging out..well this was a bout ten times harder, especially for bob whos spanish is even more limited than mine. He resorted to holding our phrase book behind her back to try and tell her she was beautiful, haha.
So it turned out to be a good night all round, and like i said, this is a party town so we didnt get back to the hostel until about 7.30am, a bit ########. After some much needed rest we got up and wondered around before attempting another night out to pacher, some house club. Again we didnt go out til about 2am butb when we got there and started dancing it was horrendous. A pretty good club, but absolutely rammed with people, you couldnt evenb dance. Its even worse when youve got a stinkin greaser in front of you, and argentine men bashing into you from all angles!!! So we ended up ####### that on e off after a bit and got to bed.
Tonight should be fubn though, bercause the gusmeister is back in town and hes inveited us round to his house to eat a grill and meet his parents and his brothers and sister. Should be hilarious!!!
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