Buenos Aires

Hola!

I am just about to finish my five day visit to Buenos Aires and I have had a really great time! I definitely picked the right hostel to stay in and have met so many fun people, mostly Brits, Irish, Americans and Aussies and have therefore had the chance to experience the BA nightlife in a social, and most importantly, secure, way. Unfortunately, Buenos Aires prices are actually quite similar to London, so I will now be living on fresh air for a week.

Despite nights out that finish at around 5-7am, I have still managed to get out of bed at a reasonable hour and do lots and lots of sightseeing. So, in order to use a colon in my blog to make it grammatically sophisticated and to achieve an A* grade at GCSE, I have visited, taken photos of and read helpful tourist plaques in the following places: the Casa Rosada where Evita did her famous balcony speech, the cathedral in the same square (I think I might start skipping cathedrals with their paper maché Jesuses as they all look the same and I never remember their name) San Martin's tomb, the National Congress building, the Obelisque, San Telmo - the antiques district, Palermo - the boutique shop and good bar district, the childhood home of Jorge Luis Borges (MASSIVELY EXCITING!), La Boca - the immigrant district where they have the famous coloured houses, Evita's grave, the Fine Arts Museum where they had a Jackson Pollock, Picasso, Rothko, and lots of Monets which I was surprised and impressed by, Café Tortini, the oldest café in the country, or something, where I had tea with two lovely Irish girls, Una and Kate, and I even managed to squeeze in a tango lesson at the National Academy of Tango next door with a very nice young man named Philip, also from Ireland.

So I have had a very good, if somewhat exhausting time, but with no spectacularly entertaining stories to tell, which is probably a good thing because my interpretation of entertaining is when things go wrong and funny things happen as a result.

I'm off to Puerto Madryn tonight to do some whale watching, so I'm very excited about that. Also, the internet is being ridiculous so photos will have to follow later...