Despite paying $100 a night for the room, breakfast was, at first glance, the very typical and basic Argentinian affair - a small buffet table with coffee, toast and pastries. David noticed that a nearby table had some ham and cheese brought to them so he went off to the kitchen and asked for some too. We took the shuttle to the airport a little after 10am with another couple who were on the same flight as us. The airport was still quite busy, the same as it...

It was hard to believe, but today was our last full day in Argentina, which also meant our travels in Central and South America were coming to end. Nine months had gone way too quick. After breakfast we packed our backs and left the room at 10am to check out. We asked them to call and book seats on the airport shuttle, but it was already full; in hindsight, we should have booked yesterday. They called a remise (a taxi service) for us instead which would cost a ...

We had done our fair share of walking through the city streets in the past few days and decided on the lazy option today. We wanted to have a look round the shops to see if we could buy some gifts and the Abasto Mall sounded quite good. It was quite a distance away though, but we discovered that they had a free shuttle service. Our hotel receptionist phoned for us and within 20 minutes a nice, air conditioned people mover pulled up at the hotel. Perhaps it was ...

Our plan was to take the open topped tourist bus round the city today. It was one of the hop on hop off types and the tickets were valid for 24 hours so we figured we could get to the further away places like La Boca and Palermo in the one day. La Boca was more of a working class area and had the colourful Caminito as well as Boca Junior's football stadium (the Pope's favourite team) while Palermo was the hip and trendy area. Challenge number one of the day was...

After having two days of long walks around the city, we were being a bit more lazy this morning and trying to decide what to do. We still hadn't decided by the time maid came to clean our room so we moved down to the lobby for a bit. We got chatting to a guy with quite a strong Johannesburg accent, but it turned out he was actually Chilean and just worked in South Africa (and learnt English there hence the accent). It was good to know that we had seen, done, eate...