Well brace yourselves this may be a big one but will try to be as brief as poss, only I’ve been in South America for the last 2 and a half weeks which is a crazy place where a lot happens.
Got to South America exhausted and a little scared about this new continent where they speak a strange language that’s not English. But all was well, we met up with Jenny’s sister Babs who had been there for 2 weeks and showed us the ropes.
We ended up staying in a new little hostel about 10 minutes from the girls, owned by a nice little guy called Rodrigo who had traveled as well and was friendly if a little disorganised. We went to see a tango show on the first night which is a little uncustomary for Chile but it was amazing. Everyone was dressed up for the theatre and went mad cheering and clapping the dancers and the band. They were all so talented and made dancing the Tango look like a piece of cake and entirely impossible. The only problem was with the darkness and the music me, Mich, and Jen found it hard not to close our eye and drift off. We went home fully expecting to flop into bed but the jet lag kicked in and we ended up staying up with some Chileans staying in our hostel chatting about S.A politics and men until the wee small hours, a very fun introduction to the continent.
Next day went slow and involved some walking and seeing of sites including one of the houses of the noble prize winning Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, a cool hotch-potch place full of the most wonderful kitsch.
That evening a little sampling of the local nightlife was called for. This involves eating at 11pm then partying until dawn which was great fun though bad for our heads the next day when we had to get up for a 10am bus to Buenos Aires. Once of the bus we slept through the Andes and halfway across the continent, the buses here are amazing though it’s like being in Business class, a far cry form the wrecks in Cambodia!
Buenos Aires is the most amazing city I’ve been to yet, soo much energy and culture and sexiness and beauty and food and drink and dancing. I could go on for ever and probably will.
Been to underground tango nightclubs where sexy young Argentinians dance the night away to that intriguing music the tango, we even had a go at it ourselves. Been to the BA version of Pacha, it was big and cool and they partied till dawn.
Tried to learn a little Spanish and am attempting to practice it now but still not all that good though it was fun learning.
Spent a lot of time just hanging out in Cafes and restaurants drinking coffee and eating steak which are by the way amazing over here, never eaten so much meat in my life, even for breakfast.
We stayed in a little area called San Telmo full of great cafe and bars with a square where there was live music and dancing you could watch most nights while chilling out in the leafy surrounding, beautiful buildings all around you where people lazed on balconies.
The area had a great atmosphere about it, full of life. One Sunday while we were there a procession of locals came past the hostel playing drums and dancing along the street to them. Young and old alike where bouncing their way down the street to celebrate Easter.
Seen most of sites around BA that we were interested in. Evita's grave and the balcony where she made the famous speech. Some wonderful old buildings and parks. We visited La Boca famous for its football team ‘the Juniors’ and it's random multi-coloured houses brightened up by the poor people living there.
We also squeezed a visit to Iguazu falls in. The most stunning waterfall I've seen for a while and believe me I've seen a few. We went to Brazil for the afternoon to see it from that side and also went in a jet boat almost underneath it and got completely soaked. It's stunning looking up at such a large waterfall form underneath, you really feel the power of the water and respect it. We got some great piccies of it and the rainbows created by all the spray.
We have met some great people along the way so far. Now have about a dozen people in Dublin to visit and hung out with 2 of the most pretty Aussie boys in BA, they were a little too aware of how gorgeous they were, but still fun.
Next stop… well back to Chile actually, to beaches, wine and the driest place in the world.
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