Up fairly early on Monday, laundry dropped off at a laundrette and other mundane stuff done before we went on a hop on hop off bus tour. I know that this sounds ultra cheesy but we wanted to do as much as we could in as short a time as possible, so like two Japanese tourists we set off on the top deck with our camera primed. Our first stop was Boca, famed for it's world famous football team Boca Juniors. Boca was the traditionally poor immigrant area, it was...

Initial thoughts about Buenos Aries It is massive The taxi driver was smoking There were a lot of people around It was going to be a lot of fun. So as we got Moira off in a taxi it was just Lisa and I for the next 17 days until Elliot and Saskia join us for carnival. Exhausted and tired after the previous five weeks we just wanted to get to our hostel room, have some food and sleep. The hostel was a disappointment, I had booked it and I don't quite remember whe...