Monday 27 April 2009

First Stop: Buenos Aires

Hi!!

Just an email to say i arrived here safely!! plane was definately good once my tv wasn working and we got moved up a class on the plane which had a lot more leg room!! got to choose what tv you wanted to watch was amazing! absolute miles from the easy jet iḿ used to!! Our hostel is nice only got one other german guy in our room who is nice but stupidly walked home the other night from a bar on his own and saw someone get mugged!! don worry Iḿ not that stupid!! We havent seen anything bad at all!We get free breakfast in the hostel which is good and cereal (which actually tastes good because the milk is not funny!) then bread ham and cheese which is their obsession but can get orange juice which means Iḿ definately getting 1 of my 5 a day!At the moment only eating breakfast then another meal as we`re not really hungary (strange for me!)

Having quite acclimatised yet to eating at 10 o clock at night!! First night we were disapointed went into a busy resturant but had a pizza and it wasn nice!! but last night we went to what seemed like a more locals place and shared a grande pizza and 2 beers for 12 quid. But its not as cheap as we thought here when we are on our 30 pound a day budget!! yesterday we walked around our part of town and saw evita house where she spoke to the people!! then went to a football match last night which did cost us about 30 quid cos it was organised by the hostel but so glad we did cos we could have ended up in what was called as the "hooligans" stand which was mental!! the game was amazing crazy atmosphere it was 0-0 at half time and the home crowd just started chanting this angry song at their own team!! but in the second half river plate scored so the fans were happy again the opposing goal keeper even got sent off for hitting a ball at the ball boy so their was lots of dramas! there was lots of singing and drums but it was the tightest security we got frisked about 3 times going in!

Today we tried to go to the Zoo but it was closed on a monday but no-one knew! so we wondered around this nice part of town walked around lots of nice parks got a bit lost but ended up in this resturant with a nice roof terrace cos its quite hot was about 25 degrees at 5pm! all the argentinians are walking around with jumpers on tho!! at the resturant we had a 3 course meal each and the total bill came to 11 pounds with drinks!! nic had veal as his main and I had a chicken dish but by english standards it was even quite swanky!!

Tonight will be our 3rd night and we staying an extra two more night in this hostel then have booked to get the bus on thursday up to iguzu falls it cost about 36 pounds but its overnight! gonna stay up there for 2 nights then get the bus back to buenos aires to then fly down south cos it works out as the same price as getting the bus.


Lots of Love

Nic & Jen
xxx