I can think of one word to describe Buenos Aires: Manic! This city is bustling to the brim with people and traffic! On arrival the hostel recommended we take a taxi from the bus station, so we did, as it was meant to have been easier than trying to find it ourselves in this very large city! It took us a good hour probably for a five minute drive up the road; all the while the driver was trying to witter onto Jonathan about his pet poodle! Bless! I was giggling away at the back as the driver then started showing Jonathan photos of it! Haha! Anyway it took 19 hours on the bus to get to Buenos Aires. We boarded the bus at 1pm and arrived at 8am the following day. On route we had big comfy fold down seats with pillows and blankets, a three course meal, three films in English, a glass of Cola, then Wine, followed by Champers! Better than flying! Again as I can sleep just about anywhere, I slept from 10pm straight through till 7:30am... Also sleeping straight through the security patrol at one of the toll booths! Apparently all the coach lights came on and police came on board checking the bus. Jonathan thinks the guy sat in front of us may have felt racially harassed being the only black guy on the bus to get a passport check. Apparently they whipped his cover straight off him and yelled "passport" in his ear waking him up! Jonathan filled me in on this little escapade upon awakening. Anyway we arrived at lime hostel and as it was early we decided to go out exploring. We was in the heart of Buenos Aires and only a 10 minute stroll from a few of the major sites of Casa Rosada and Evitas Balcony, another beautiful Cathedral, the MOD, the National Congress and the Plaza de Mayo- which is also where all the Falkland protests are going on. There are big signs up and a few protestors here and there but nothing major. That night we also had our very first proper Argentinian meal, Jonathan had Steak and I had chicken. Both meals where excellent! Jonathans steak was immense and you would easily have paid £25-30 in England for the equivelent! For £10 you got a lovely thick juicy fillet! Was very yummy! My chicken was also lovely and was so big I couldn't finish it, another bargain at a fiver! That night we discovered the hostel was rubbish and music blared till at least 4am in the morning. Also some daft china woman kept turning the fan off so we was very hot and bothered when we woke the day after. We was also sharing our room with a very strange Russian bloke who like to stare and splurt random Russian words at us with a dopey grin whilst doing so! Harmless im sure! Buenos Aires also has a metro tube so we decided to take advantage the day after and we explored the district of San Telmo and the Plaza Dorrego (a lovely little square with restaurants on it) and then walked to La Boca and the BOCA football stadium before heading to the best place of all in Buenos Aires, the Caminito district! This was wonderfull and the heart of the Tango! Buildings are brightly coloured, streets are cobbled and there are bright paintings for sale along the sidewalk. There are also Tango couples out doing some dance moves and if you wanted you could pose with them for a photo. We had a good look round here before catching the bus and tube to the other side of town, Recoleta to look at the famous cemetery. This was probably the strangest cemetery we have ever seen! It was like walking around a little town for the dead. The layout was similar to streets of houses, however this was streets of tombs. Some where very fancy and some you could see the coffins inside. You could imagine all sorts of ghosts walking about at night up and down and knocking on the other tomb doors! There was some famous people buried here (if you could find them around the thousands of tombs); we found Evitas grave but gave up on the rest as we didn't know who they where anyway; Some famous Argentinians! After our very long stroll round Buenos Aires we headed back for some very cheap £3 bottles of Argentinian wine and a cheap extra large £3 pizza for tea! Then back to the hostel for what we hoped would be more of a quieter night. Jonathan got mad though as he gashed his toe open on a broken tile in the bathroom. A nasty cut! Cities are great to look round but we decided we were missing the quiet life too much. Hence I am now writing this while sat on a beach in a small town called Villa Gesell whilst Jonathan is playing in the sea. This is five hours down the coast from Buenos Aires and is a small seaside resort. We are camping again on a little site close to the beach. This is an Argentinian holiday destination and the beach is packed with locals having fun. We are both now nice and relaxed again! Missing you all, Hayls and Jonathan x