We are now back in Argentina after getting the ferry from Uruguay, and have been spending some time in Buenos Aires. On our first day we went to La Boca, the area of the city that Boca Juniors (an Argentinan football club) are from. South America is football crazy and we have noticed that even in the smartest resturants, there are large TV screens which are showing replays if there is no live match. We have even seen groups of people standing outside looking in a...

Our first Argentinian experience was a truly authentic one - horse riding on a ranch! The ranch was set in beautiful countryside a little way out of a small town called El Dorado. We were fed empanadas (small pastries with different fillings) before we sat down to a wonderful lunch of Argentinian beef cooked on an indoor barbecue with salad followed by desert and coffee. We were all feeling sorry for the horses at that point as we ate quite a lot! We spent the af...