Buenos Aires - Part 2

It feels like much longer than a week since I arrived in Buenos Aires. I´ve spent most of my time here with a great group of people from Brasil, Columbia and the US. Unfortunately they´ve all left over the last couple of days but we had a great time exploring the city, eat more meat than is humanly possible and staying up late talking over a beer or two.

Cristina (Columbia), Mauricio (Brasil), Jenn (USA), Will (Brasil), Kareasa (USA), Me...

The meat here is actually freaking me out a bit. The flavour is far meatier than we have in Australia and I´ve been suffering from vegatable and fruit withdrawals. I finally bought some fruit today but have been thinking that I should finally become a vegetarian... of course I´m in the worst place in the world to do that so I´ll keep struggling through the mountains of meat for a bit longer.

Today I moved out of the hostel and started my home stay with Sénora Dora, a great, warm woman in her late 60´s who loves to talk. Fortunately for me she speaks English as well as Spanish, but I´ve been trying to speak English as little as possible and have been doing ok so far, but still have a very long way to go. Hanging out with Spanish speakers for the last week has definitely helped.

Buenos Aires is a great city full of beautiful European style buildings and houses, heavily influenced by the first govenor who was in love with Paris, and it´s easy to see why people consider it the Paris of Latin America. The weather has been absolutely shocking so far, so I haven´t taken my camera out yet, but it´s clearing up now so I´ll be posting the obligatory photos of churches and statues of men on horses over the next couple of weeks.

Despite being a great city, I´m not sure how I´ll handle the next 3 weeks. I´m starting to get itchy feet and am keen to check out Uruguay and other parts of Argentina and will be making weekend trips to the surrounding areas to keep me sane. It´s hard to see how I´ll last a year traveling at the moment, but I´m sure I´ll look back before I head home in December and wonder how I could have been so crazy.

Danny and Nic arrive tomorrow and it will be great to catch up and hear about their adventures. If you´ve seen thier blog you know they´ve definitely been up to some.

Hasta.