¡Hola a todos! I am now safely returned to Buenos Aires after a magical trip north to the Iguazu Falls. This was the first of my simply “must do” experiences outside BA and it was a truly memorable start! I departed from BA at 5pm on Monday from Retiro, the central bus station in Buenos Aires, aboard one of the legendary long-haul super-buses that Argentina employs in place of a useful rail network for travelling any large distance within the country and, ...

¡Hola a todos! After a rather hectic last few days, which has included some moderate celebrating in the heady aftermath of Spanish classes and the completion of some very organized errands in preparation of the end of my stay here in BA and journey on to pastures new, I have finally found the time to jot down (well, type up) some thoughts about my trip to Colonia. Colonia is a wonderfully whimsical, endearing, sleepy harbour-town on the Uruguian bank of t...

¡Hola a todos! I am sorry that it has, once again, been a little while since I wrote. The past week or so has been outrageously busy, culminating in the end of my month of Spanish classes at the university earlier this afternoon. It is due to this felicitous fact that I am, for the first time, writing a blog out of order (shock, horror). I took a wondrous trip across the River Plate earlier this week - Tuesday was a national holiday here in Argentina - to ...

Hola a todos! Hmmm, it has been a while; my apologies. This week has been full of fun and games, the culmination of which was temporary heart-failure at the prospect of a broken camera (I did nothing wrong, I swear). Thankfully, said camera, and heart, are in much better shape these days, albeit at the loss of the opportunity to take any photos of the famous Boca area of BA - I shall simply have to return there at some point this week... My blog is presently cu...

Hola a todos! Another day, another blog entry - I think that I may finally bring things back up-to-date at the conclusion of today's musings. This weekend was wonderful, which ended up being something of a fortunate surprise. I awoke Saturday, mid-morning, and headed down to the local Internet café to check my e-mails. This was important because after two weeks in BA, I still did not have a fully-functional mobile phone. There are some poor souls out the...