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One week down already - amazing to think! And three weeks since we left Australia!
Had a crash course in Spanish each day and picking up words here and there....menu´s are a little easier today than last week...but it´s certainly been fun and games and will continue to be so for the remainder of our trip! We´re seriously in trouble if we get talked back to....and this is when hand gestures come in very handy!
So far-:
- Buenos Aires - stayed in a top hotel (Hotel Carly!) in a great suburb San Telmo - were able to organise Nat´s Visa which was quite hassle free really. Spent a day or two seeing the sights, a very walkable city which was good. Very Parisien and saw the famous Pink Presidential Palace where Evita did her bit! Saw her grave too.....amazing cemetary - never seen anything like it!
- Argentina is the home of Tango, so we were definitely up for a show. Despite being at this place 3 times to check location, time etc...we failed to actually ask if they were playing tango that evening. We turned up and waiting around, bottle of wine to keep us company for over an hour - front row! - only to spend 2 hours listening to live Spanish music....always anxious that the singer in one of his long chats to the audience, might direct comments to us the way he had to other tables! Mal still thinks he was able to sing along loudly in the audience participation numbers! We spent alot of time predicting what he might actually be saying and although he mentioned the word Tango SEVERAL times throughout the singing, we did not see a Tango dancer all night!
- This was made up by seeing free Tango dancing at the Antiques fair on the Sunday which was excellent!
- Decided to go to Uruguay for the weekend and took a ferry across to a lovely little town, Colonia del Sacramento. Spent a leisurely afternoon here and are definitely becoming used to the cerveza´s!
- Onto the capital, Montevideo. Again, an easy place to stroll but were happy to take it easy and see what the streets had to offer. Take the Vic Market, and replace every stall with a large BBQ with Pigs heads etc and that is what we came across....not Nat´s place!
- Sunday, an overnight bus to Mendoza, near the border of Chile. Went on a pilgramage of Mal´s to visit the stadium where Scotland beat Holland in a famous game in the 1978 World cup (now, I realise many of you were barely out of nappies, or even born by then, but remember Mal´s age!!). Did a bus tour covering two wineries, an olive farm ´(yep, still don´t fancy them!) and a chocolate shop that also provided free samples of absynthe!
- Over the Andes tomorrow and into Chile, first to Valparaiso and then onto Santiago.
- We are then going to try to work our way north to Equador on what could be 3 days worth of buses (we´ve looked into flights and we just can´t justify them!) but at least that will get us up north and the rest of the trip will be much shorter trips. We´re also hoping to possibly get on a trip to the Galapagos Is. before the high season starts (could be wishful thinking!).
For those of you still reading this by the end, thanks and we´d love to hear from you and all your news from home and abroad!
Lots of love
Nat and Mal
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