Our arrival into Buenos Aires by plane was greeted with a huge electrical storm, it was beautiful to fly over with flashes of lightning turning the sky a light purple colour every few seconds. And Buenos Aires definitely lived up to the hype, it´s a beautiful city with huge wide avenues and loads of parks and green spaces. We were very much looking forward to some time in a big city, the food in Argentina is amazing (if you eat and love meat which luckily we do!) but we were getting a little bored of pasta, parilla and pizza. Luckily in Buenos Aires you can find almost anything you could ever dream of so we pigged out on Mexican, Japanese, Vietnamese and Indian! Oh and they do delicious ice cream too, we indulged a few times ;) One more thing about Argentinian food is that they cannot do spicy so even when they say something is really spicy it arrives and invariably is as mild as you could ever get anywhere else.. In the end we were ordering food with descriptions like fire sauce just to see if we could get anything spicy at all

We stayed in Hostel Gecko in Palermo, which is one of the main nightlife spots filled with great restaurants and bars, we were in heaven! The hostel is run by Philip´s friend, Murray, and we had a great time, even sampling the local nightlife with Murray, his Mexican girlfriend Valeria and some of their mates, and believe me it went on until the wee small hours. It really is a city that never sleeps! People go out for dinner at midnight and even the milongas (tango clubs) go on until 9am!

We visited the caminitos in La Boca, it´s a poor area but years ago the locals took scrap metal from the ships in the harbour and painted it bright colours and it still looks amazing. Of course no trip to La Boca would be complete without visiting the La Bombonera, the football stadium of Boca Juniors. It was amazing to see and incredible to think that they cram 58,000 people into such a small stadium but I guess the terraces which they call the 12th man (so called because the fans singing and chanting is like having an extra man on the pitch) must be pretty packed on match day! And pretty intimidating for the visiting team, with only 2,000 of the seats in the stadium for visiting fans.

We really enjoyed the fair in San Telmo with all the markets and tango dancers on the street and the most amazing street music. Plus around Plaza Serrano we visited another market with the most amazing clothes stalls and shops, really different stuff - I loved it and we did succumb to purchasing a few things but for me I was pretty restrained

We took a day trip out to Tigre which is a delta where all the rivers meet and the only way around is by boat between houses and shops so you have boat buses and boat taxis and even the petrol station is hanging over the river. Very beautiful and relaxing place, especially after the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires. We also visited Evita´s grave and the museum to her which was great. The graveyard was amazing, it´s like a mini city with these huge shrines that are one or two storeys high - just incredible.

And then my absolute favourite - a tango class which was just brilliant and in such an authentic old fashioned tango hall. We actually thought we were getting good at it until one of the local guys took me up to dance and I realised just how little I knew!! But so much fun!