Day 355, 24 June 2013, Buenos Aires. Lazy Day... We have found BA to be an eminently strollable city - It is flat. Dead flat. Pavements with massive holes provide the only significant topographical features. Which makes it perfect for taking a walk even when you plan on doing nothing. We visited the Buquebus agency to arrange ferry tickets to Uruguay for the 26th. Had rather successfully done the entire booking online (in Spanish) only to have the site have ...

Day 354, 23 June 2013, Finally - it's Sunday and the day for BA's famous San Telmo Flea market. Yay! We didn't want to be too early and by the time we were up and out the door it was past 11 am. Not too much of a drama as it turns out since the start of Defensa Street was around 5 minutes walk away (definitely looked further on the map). This market seems to go for miles. And when you think the end is in sight, more miles. Then when the stalls on the street...

Day 353, 22 June 2013 Pelaqueria Day! Dinner at Cumana. At nearly the end of the trip we thought we take the opportunity to get spruced up for a fraction of the cost in Sydney (20% of the price in fact, if not less) - so we headed to a Pelaqueria / Hairdresser on Maipu Street for the full treatment. We both feel 10 years younger. Was a pleasant morning getting fussed over and a lazy afternoon reading and resting after yesterday's massive Recoleta outing. We ...

Day 352, 21 June 2013, Buenos Aires, Recoleta Market & Cemetery (... yes - these are on the MUST DO lists for BA!) We retraced our steps from our night time tour of Recoleta and took our time browsing shop windows. The Recoleta market took us both by surprise. We thought it would have the usual tourist tat (same same, but same), but almost every stall brought a new idea, a new style, a craft form we'd never seen. We discovered that Alpaca in Peru is a cut...

Day 351, 20 June 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hip, chic, hard to beat neighbourhood of Palermo... Soho and Hollywood districts and the market in Plaza Serrano. We took off today on the metro to Plaza Italia - luckily 3 metro lines start within 2 minutes walk of the hotel - so easy. We like easy. And with the BA metro did I mention it's cheap too - only $2.50 peso per trip each. That's US$0.50 cents. Wow. The neighbourhood of Palermo was busy in a relaxed k...