Empujar Por Las Escaledas

Getting into town...be prepared for traffic like Vietnam, sitting on a train track with a train heading towards you and somehow not managing to hit anything...this kindof driving skill cannot be taught.

Moving on, we are now in Buenos Aires and it is raining and we have actually spent long enough in an internet cafe on a computer that actually works to get around to sending some emails which are long overdue. We arrived here and made it to the posh part of town and saw Evitas grave (oh, please let me have my photo next to that...in fact let me frame it and put it on a wall!) and since then it has rained but we figure we will be back here at some point so the lack of sightseeing has not been too disturbing. We have a friend of a friend here who has been very kind, i say he has been very kind...he did con us into eating cow's intestines the other night. I think i preferred the chickens feet in china. We did go for amazing ice cream afterwards though which did kindof make up for it.

Have been trying to recall my spanish from school but without too much success. In my attempt to order pizza the other day i ended up with chicken pastries. d'oh. Then there are the mosquitos who have taken a liking to Amy and me...and especially my face. In our confusion we couldn´t quite work out which currency they were working in Pesos or Dollars (although looking back now it is pretty obvious U$S15 for some laundry...naaa!) so we went to a restaurant thinking it was in dollars...ordered really stingily, paid for it on credit card because we thought we didn´t have enough money then left what we thought was a 10% tip but was in fact 25%! The waiter must have thought we were loopy :)

On the plus side we are back to paying a pittance for everything, including mosquito repellant, chicken pastries which you didnt really want to begin with, overly large tips, internet to pass some time when it is raining, cows intestines which you didnt really want to begin with...

We leave tomorrow at 7am...we dont have a bed for tonight and are going to use Pablo´s house as luggage storage while we go and experience Buenos Aires nightlife, enter Pablo (another one). His parents have been all too kind and say their house is our house...hopefully that means we can one day adopt their dog Flappy. Chip chop...must be off now.