Art & Food
Went to the inauguration of a new restaurant in Palermo last night. How I got to go is a bit complicated, I met Katia (who is from Geneva) at the hostel and she'd met the owner of the restaurant (who is also an artist) when he had an exhibition in Lausanne, in fact...
The Joys of Communal Living
So after being conspicuous by their absence the housemates have been slowly making their way back to the nest this afternoon. It's like some sort of late-adolescent soap opera (I must be the oldest by at least 10 years). They all seem to be studying or on a placement....
La Recoleta
Yesterday I moved into a flat where I'll stay for the next 6 weeks or so before heading off on my travels. There's 9 of us, although I've only met 2 so far. I'll stick some photos up soon. Today I went back to La Recoleta cemetery, where I'd been...
Aarggh
Those of you who have travelled with me before know that on occasion I leave the safety of home and after about a week my arms, face and hands decide that they don't like the new environment and they explode with rashes, open skin and general redness and pain....
Street Art
They're a decorative lot the Argentines. Palermo, the area where my hostel is, has lots of buildings covered with some pretty funky street art. There's graffiti as we know it, but also some more creative stuff. Heart This one is on the corner of Fitz Roy and...
How I came to love the Argentinian cow
Steak Argentina is known for many things, Polo, Football, that unfortunate incident in the early 80s (started by a drunk General according to a taxi driver I had the other night) and of course Steak. Before coming here, you think, yeah yeah steak. We have great steak...
Slowly does it
Well, after the excitement of not getting pissed on at the Boca game things have calmed down a bit which I'm not complaining about. Every day I've managed to get some jobs done, made a appointment to see a doctor about getting my jabs done, unlocked my Swiss phone so...
D10S
One major disappointment about the Boca game on Sunday was that God wasn't there. Maradona came to prominence playing for them in the early 80s and then man is treated like a divine being. When he's there he has a reserved seat on the halfway line and the...
La Noche de los Museos
On Saturday went out for La Noche de los Museos, where every museum in town (all 120 of them) was open until 2am, either with special tours or some sort of musical event. I ended up with James and Alvaro at an outdoor club night at the General Cultural Headquarters of...
Vamo Boca
I'm not a big football fan as most of you will know, but yesterday I went to see Boca Juniors play at La Bombonera in southern Buenos Aires. It was an organised trip, we got picked up, taken to a bar for beer and pizza and then onto the match. I was perfectly calm...
Nada
Done nothing today, so not much to report. Had a look round a flea market just up the road which had loads of wonderful old crap in it, and realised that kids of today not only have never used a tape playing walkman, but also think phones have always had buttons....
Apology
I would like to apologise to Sonya the German girl for snoring in the dormitory last night. Even Germans don't deserve that.