Buenos Aires - Days 1 and 2

Hey we are in Buenos Aires!!!!

That took us 13hrs to reach the city from Roma but here we are!!! What a journey on Tuesday!!! Train from Doncaster to London King Cross, train to Heatrow then flight to Roma then to Buenos Aires. I am affraid to say that the Italian are loyal to their reputation: take your time, be late and be desorganised!!

The flight to Buenos Aires was alright if you consider that staying 13hrs in a plane sleeping with old men snoring to make the plane vibrating, smelling the nice feet of young men who has not change the socks for 2 weeks (at least!!). But wait the best is to come...

We nicely landed to Buenos Aires, I said nicely because due to the thick fog we have not realised that we were touching the tarmac!!! And temperature was 8C, goodness!! that was less than in England, could not beleive it...Caught a bus then a cab and spent 1h30 in the traffic just to make 35Km!!, I thought we will never arrive as the Argentinian are driving as crazy so please for all of you who are thinking that I am a crazy driver, banish that from your head because I found worst than me!! Finally, we were one street from our appartment and to celebrate that, Lee just put his foot on a dog´s shit, a very soft and brown one!!! Welcome to Buenos Aires!!!

Time to take a shower (and clean the shoes only for Lee :-)), to see the well known "Plaza de Mayo", to buy some food, we were back to the flat as we were quite exhausted. After some nice pasta (to go to Buenos Aires to eat pasta...), time to go to bed. Well too simple!!! I kicked the glass of wine which was on the bedside cabinet, tried to catch it before it breaks, kicked the bedside light which felt in the floor breaking the light bulb and blew the electricity!!!! For a first night I did not too bad!!! Wine was everywhere on the floor, on the bed sheets and the headboard (hopefully I saved the glass!), no electricity in the building, good score...So at 10.30pm, equipped with our headtorches: clean the floor, clean the headboard, remove the bedsheets to soak and look for the electricity panel. I am sure that everybody would like to do something more interesting at 10.30pm!!! Could not find the electricity panel so we went to bed hoping to catch the landlady on the morning. We found her on the morning and apparently it is commun that the electricity blows, good for us so we did not have to explain the events from the evening before. Really good for us! And to add on that it is raining with 16C!!! I left England thinking I will finally have some tan but that is no more on my plans...

We went to visit the "Plaza de Mayo" where Eva Peron made her talk, San Telmo area (we are staying in this district), the cementary in Recolate famous for its expensive and extravagant graves all in marble and for hosting Eva Peron´s grave, the Florida and Santa Fe streets, the "shopping streets" where you can find more MacDonalds and Burger King outlets than in all England!!! We tried to catch the metro to go back home after 51/2hrs walking but when we saw the crowd in the trains (there was no empty centimeter in the floor!!), we were happy to walk 11/2hrs more...(surely not our feet!!).

Today it is sunny and we are stuck on the internet cafe sending mails and updating my blog!! What a shame!! Don´t worry we are now going to carry on the discovery of Buenos Aires.

So I see you then for more adventures!! As we have some issue to make the computer working at home, I will post some pictures as soon as Lee will have sort out that (sorry but you can expect next month...)