oooooooooooh I've got a headache!!
We had a brilliant new year that, in typical Argentinian fashion started super late and ended even later, I think we were having our main course at 1am on the 1st of January! We decided to cook at home rather than spend another small fortune eating out, so we headed to the supermarket and bought a small mountain of food and wine and beer and champagne for 1/6 of the cost of a restaurant dinner. We had been told that Buenos Aires doesn't celebrate New Year in an extravagant way, it's a family occasion, so we were a little surprised when the whole city exploded again at midnight, like on Christmas day except this time it lasted for almost an hour. They're crazy people, when we went into the street we saw it was all middle-aged adults letting the fireworks off, not even kids. So anyway, we had a huge and delicious dinner of steak and salad and more meat and ice-cream and at 2 we finally decided to head out and get a cab into Palermo, the 'hip' area of town. We found a bar with lots of people who all seemed to be waiting for drinks and started chatting to a big group of people who were all from the same hostel. So, when they left to find a club, we followed but as is the way with most big groups, the group got separated and we found ourselves wandering around with very few people in the streets. That is until we found a huge street party with a little DJ in the middle and stayed until the sun came up.
So now we're suffering a little and we're taking the day off, nothing's open today either. Tomorrow we're heading out of town to the pampas to have a swim in a pool and hopefully ride some horses. We rented bicycles here the other day but, while cycling around in the huge park of Buenos Aires with wildlife all around and no cars is very fun, cycling on broken streets with people driving like loons everywhere and pollution destroying our throats was a little less amusing. We've bought our tickets for Santiago, so we'll be there on the 9th after a 20hour bus journey but we got the bed option so we're actually quite excited about it.
Anywho, I leave you. I'm sorry there are no photos but the man behind the counter won't let us take any other USB plug out so it'll have to be another day. Let us know what you did and thank you to everyone who called/ sent texts etc. Lots and lots of love
xxx
We had a brilliant new year that, in typical Argentinian fashion started super late and ended even later, I think we were having our main course at 1am on the 1st of January! We decided to cook at home rather than spend another small fortune eating out, so we headed to the supermarket and bought a small mountain of food and wine and beer and champagne for 1/6 of the cost of a restaurant dinner. We had been told that Buenos Aires doesn't celebrate New Year in an extravagant way, it's a family occasion, so we were a little surprised when the whole city exploded again at midnight, like on Christmas day except this time it lasted for almost an hour. They're crazy people, when we went into the street we saw it was all middle-aged adults letting the fireworks off, not even kids. So anyway, we had a huge and delicious dinner of steak and salad and more meat and ice-cream and at 2 we finally decided to head out and get a cab into Palermo, the 'hip' area of town. We found a bar with lots of people who all seemed to be waiting for drinks and started chatting to a big group of people who were all from the same hostel. So, when they left to find a club, we followed but as is the way with most big groups, the group got separated and we found ourselves wandering around with very few people in the streets. That is until we found a huge street party with a little DJ in the middle and stayed until the sun came up.
So now we're suffering a little and we're taking the day off, nothing's open today either. Tomorrow we're heading out of town to the pampas to have a swim in a pool and hopefully ride some horses. We rented bicycles here the other day but, while cycling around in the huge park of Buenos Aires with wildlife all around and no cars is very fun, cycling on broken streets with people driving like loons everywhere and pollution destroying our throats was a little less amusing. We've bought our tickets for Santiago, so we'll be there on the 9th after a 20hour bus journey but we got the bed option so we're actually quite excited about it.
Anywho, I leave you. I'm sorry there are no photos but the man behind the counter won't let us take any other USB plug out so it'll have to be another day. Let us know what you did and thank you to everyone who called/ sent texts etc. Lots and lots of love
xxx
Late Edit : In a new internet cafe now and put the photo of the sun coming up for dawn 2010 as we returned to the flat. Wa s a nice start to the year!
"So now we're suffering a little and we're taking the day off..."....from what?! All that holidaying?! ;) Chile looks sweeeeet! Have fun in Patagonia too, and take care. Tra for noooow! xx
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