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We decided to solve all our New Year's Eve party problems by catching a flight to Buenos Aires instead. American Airlines made sure it was an unforgettable moment by not even acknowledging it so Gav and I drank our dutyfree vodka and made the best of an average flight.
We arrived to lovely steamy heat and off came the Rhode Island thermals and out came the thongs! Yippeeee!!! We holed up in an old suburb in a hostel and sweltered away as we readjusted our body temperatures.
Soon, we found an apartment to rent, a cool loft in a nice suburb. We lived near the main park and started walking again and Gav joined the local gym for boxing twice a week. I made great friends with a Kiwi girl Jo, and we started going to yoga together. Gav spent the days trading and I amused myself with Jo having coffee and going to the shopping centres.
Things are very cheap here and its tempting to buy up. Shoes! Leather! Food! And if only we could bring back meat. Argentina is famous for its bbq and most restaurants are bbq ones with windows to the footpath showing 2 or 3 whole pigs roasting over a coal fire. For about AUD10.00 you get a little hotplate at your table with perfectly cooked filet steak, chorizo sausage, a rack of beef ribs, half a lamb and all the organs and entrails (a delicacy). Its a meat-lovers paradise and we embraced it! They also tend to eat very late here. They all head out around 6pm like in Europe and partake in a little evening tea - icecream, sandwiches, pastries, just a little something to tide them over. Then, they'll eat at about 10pm. Most restaurants don't fill up until midnight and we slotted in easily to that programme. We found ourselves ordering takeaway at all hours of the night.
As far as sights go, BA is quite European in its buildings with wide streets lined with lush trees. The people are very relaxed and friendly. They're mad about tango and dogs. A dog-walker in BA will take up to 20 dogs on a single jaunt. They drive like rally drivers on steroids and will squeeze into any space that they think could potentially become a lane in its own right. Buses included. And there's lots of them. BA is 4th noisiest city in the world and don't we know it. Its also on the banks of a big brown river which is unswimmable. For me, a summer without a pool or beach was a once in a lifetime experience, never to be repeated! On Bunbury Cup Day, we called home to Wally and John to get some hot tips and laid some bets on the internet. Then called Wayne for the gossip about tentland etc.
Soon we leave for a month in Patagonia...
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