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¡Hola Blogi! ¿qué tal?
Hmm i guess i'll begin at the beginning-ish and see how far i get. So arrived in BA on sunday, found a shady spot outside to sit and wait for jon to arrive then we caught the local bus into town (for free cos we only had notes and it only takes coins so the driver just kinda waved us on) after waiting for over an hour for it to arrive and watching several buses of the same number drive on by for no apparent reason. Found the hostel in town that Natasha had recommended and booked ourselves in for 2 nights, then strolled around a surprisingly closed town, more so than expected, and got some dinner. The choice was pretty much pizza, pizza or pizza which was also a surprise, and super cheesy pizza at that. And our first taste of argentinian beer (1L bottle for $14 pesos = around $NZD7 which we later discovered retails for around 3 pesos in the supermarkets!). Day two was spent meandering around town. We heard of a free tour in the morning but couldn't find it at all at the place it was supposed to start from so we did our own walking tour with a little help from the guidebook i cleverly managed to pick up at the airport. Best thing was probably the cathedral in plaza de mayo, besides being harrassed in spanish about we still don't know what. There is a lot of incredible architecture in Buenos Aires, really beautiful ornate buildings everywhere. Went to eat at Café Tortoni, apparently the father of all cafés in BA (according to the ever knowledgable guidebook), had an interesting salad and our first taste of dulce de leche icecream - i'm totally hooked! Went back to the hostel for a much later than intended siesta, then wandered around the streets again (once again very closed for business for the most part) til the early hours. The following day we decided to shift to Palermo, best decision ever though not so straightforward as planned. Walked through the hot hot heat fully laden with packs then figured out the subway system and got to palermo to do a heap more fully laden hot hot heat walking around the streets of palermo trying to find a place to stay. The 2 hostels we tried here were pretty much invisible - you really have to know where to look to find them, (even with an address, we only had that for one), which we didn't but with a little help from the locals we made it. The first was booked out except for expensive single rooms but the second had space and is perfect and beautiful and lovely and wonderful and home! It's called La Casa Fitz Roy (has a very flash website should u wish to check it out) and it is great. Although our food keeps shrinking or disappearing altogether. Palermo itself is pretty great. The greatness might have to wait for another post tho...