We spent 6 nights in Buenos Aires, which was a nice break for us between really long bus journeys. The journey was ok, really long. Unfortunately Alan was struck down with a migraine on the busduring the night which wasn´t too fun for a few hours but it wasn´t too bad in the end luckily. Our hostel was really nice, right in the centre of town. Unfortunately we were in a dorm with the loudest snorer since the begining of the trip. Absolutely awful, nothing worse than a snorer is there? Even earplugs only slightly diminished the noise. Apart from that though the hostel was good, even had English football on Sky so Alan was happy.

We spent several days exploring the city. We were quite near the main square where the big palace building is, that has the famous Evita balcony. Unfortunatly the building had several balconies and we don´t know much about Evita so we didn´t know which one it was haha. Our Lonely Planet told us there was a museum inside and you could get free English tours but when we went to look the stern armed guard told us to go away, no museum here any more. Strange. There are a lot of political protestors in the square all the time, war veterans and protests about missing people and so on. It was all quite intense I must say.

We also walked over to La Boca, which is the poor area of the town which is quite famous for having loads of colorful houses and streets. Took us an hour to walk there. Alan is supposed to be in charge of map skills but he let us down there I must say. Anyway we finally got there and had a look around and a coffee. It was pretty cool, but also super touristy, with loads of tango street dancers and fake maradona lookalikes offering photos. Alan was wearing a football shirt from Chile so they all kept shouting at him in Spanish about Chile trying to get us in to their restuarents or whatever. It lead to confusion. We got the bus back. It was really cheap about 2.30 pesos (25p) and we had exact change, 2 peso note and some coins. However the driver threw a strop at us because we didn´t have exact COIN change. This lead to people on the bus donating small change to us so we could afford the fare it was quite embarrassing. One woman apologised to me for the drivers behaviour and said all Argentinians weren´t like that. We eventually made it home. Isn´t public transport fun.

One day we went to a local football match, Velez vs Newell´s Old Boys. We managed to find the stadium through public transport and bought the tickets direct from there. They were cheap, Alan´s was a fiver and mine was half price cos I´m a lady. Much better than booking it through an agent. The Boca vs River derby was on while Anyway we came back later inj the evening to watch the match. Security was tight, Alan nearly got the battescated out of his camera (cos they like to throw that kind of thing on the pitch) We were in the cheap stand fenced off from the ptich. The fans were crazy singing and waving flags and stuff. The players had to run through inflatatable tubes onto the pitch and when the referee came on he was escorted by two policemen in riot gear with shields. There was no trouble at all though. The game was good but the home team ended up losing 2-1. They made us wait for ages before they let us out, I guess they were letting the away fans out first.

On the last day we visited the graveyard, which I though was a bit of a weird thing to do but it is a big tourist attraction apparently. It is like a mini village of big family tombs, realy old ones which fancy statues as well as modern ones with glass fronts so you could see inside. Creepy. There was definately a bit of competitiveness going on with it I reckon, some guys had big stautes made of themselves. Evita is buried there and there were loads of flowers and people there. I had to have a quick look on Wikipedia to get the lowdown on her and why they all love her so much.

We chedked out on the last day, had to sort out our bus tickets then hang around until 8pm when we caught the bus up to Puerto Iguazu.