Well, we are in Buenos Aires and we both absolutely LOVE it. Its such a fantastic city - very cosmopolitan, modern, friendly, bustling, energetic, colourful, buzzing, passionate. Basically it is the complete opposite to Montevideo lol. If I had to compare it to somewhere, I'd say its definitely like Paris, mixed with New York.
We got here on Tuesday after catching the ferry from Uruguay. We caught a bus to our hostel (the driver let us on for free because we had no change) and we checked in. The hostel was a massive disappointment - its a big chain hostel with no warm feeling to it, its just full of drunken English people and the rooms are not nice. We are both on really high bunks that have no sides to them and no ladder. They are away from the walls so you could fall off either side. Luckily, we only booked four days here so we are spending the last 4 days of our trip somewhere else that was recommended by a friend. Despite the hostel being bad, it hasn't ruined our perception of the city.
The first day we went on a walking tour of the city, which was quite good. They took us to Eva Peron's grave, which was fascinating, especially after having watched Evita on the coach the other night. The grave is in a huge prestigious cemetery where the coffins are stacked up high inside shrines and are easily visible. It was like nothing I have ever seen.
That night , we went for an all you can eat that was on the same street as our hostel (we are staying on the main boulevard called av. de Mayo). It was only about £7 and it was fantastic. The chips were stunning and you could order as much meat off the grill as you wanted (Lid's heaven).
Yesterday we went to the place where Evita stood on the balcony and looked around a museum about the history of BA. It is very interesting to see how similar the actual history is to the film!
BA is a party city and there is so much to do so we have decided to stay 8 days. Stupidly, neither of us brought any party clothes with us so we had to go shopping yesterday for some jeans. We looked for ages (all the shops stock mainly size 0) but eventually we found a nice little cheap shop where the woman was really friendly (couldn't speak English, which was nice) and we both got some jeans for £20 - not bad. Unfortunately, I am on antibiotics at the moment so can't drink until Saturday (which is very annoying!) but last night we went on an organised pubcrawl and I paid half price and just drank redbull. It was brilliant (even when sober) and we met some really nice people. It was a good job I was sober because by the end of the night, Jemma, who drank all of my free shots, could barely stand up. Tonight we are going on another pubcrawl with a girl we met in Iguazu, and I think we may be going now to get some food, possibly the fry up that the hostel offer. Yes, this really is what you call living the dream ;)
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