Back to BA
Friday, June 1st, 2007
From Rosario we went back to Buenos Aires for a few days before our flight down to Ushuaia. Buenos Aires was as busy as when we last left it, but with oh so much more rain. It didn’t stop raining for all three days we were there and we were drenched and to be honest a little miserable, so we shopped! Well we needed lots of warm things for down south, things that we had left in Guernsey intending to have them posted out, only now there wasn’t enough time so sadly shopping was our only option. On this subject I would just like to inform you all of the sad fate of Guernsey Ted. Little Tedster was posted out to us by my Mum only a week or so after we left home when we realised we really needed a mascot. Well, Ted was posted to the held mail department in Buenos Aires main post office at the start of March and unfortunately that is all we know of him. Despite having been back to Buenos Aires twice to try to collect him, he has yet to turn up and our guess is that he is now keeping some postal workers child war at night – well that’s what we like to think. So, if you are reading this international Ted, drop us a line let us know you´re safe.
Anyway, back to the real world and real rain in BA. During our time here we were staying with a wonderful American lady who’s daughter we had met at our homestay in Mendoza. She was great, she put us up for three days for just the cost of dinner and a bit of light housework in our room (and the opportunity to call us the British help) and she regaled us with great stories and information about the time she was living in Ecuador, giving us lots of useful information for when we get there. She also very kindly gave us the names of some other friends of hers in South America who we are very much looking forward to meeting on our way round. It really is fabulous to have someone to meet up who lives in the place you are visiting; you get to see a real and interesting side of a place, not just the gringo train and Lonely Planet highlights. So, during our next three days in BA we say all, or at least most of the sights we didn’t manage to see last time. Including Café Tortoni where all of the Argentine academics, artists and lose political cannons used to meet, it was fabulous, a richly decorated sumptuous little place just tucked away in a corner where you’d never find it if you weren’t looking – just like Narnia. The city really did grow on us both considerably more this time round and we hope we’ll be able to come back again and see it in the sunshine – and also visit the strange religious theme park where Christ is resurrected every half hour, which unfortunately we didn’t manage to get to yet! Maybe we’ll even work there one day (in BA not at the resurrection) since we are finally getting job offers and responses to emails from couple of months ago.
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