Jekyll and Hyde or what? Saw the cool side of the city yesterday, Thursday. Thought at one point it was seriously going the way of the pear though. As I was meandering up through the hurried streets which I´d been walking the night before (the binmen had clearly been WELL busy at 4am, not a bag in sight) towards the city centre, the pavements suddenly got dead busy and about a hundred metres up, the sound of drums and colourful flags waving. ¨Local colour, chec...

Busy, bustling and frenetic - and that was just the dude who tried to bundle me into an illegal cab when we got out of Buenos Aires arrivals. Just shy of 12 hours after leaving Madrid, having bounced through some MAJOR, and I mean MAJOR, turbulence over Uruguay, the pilot wrestled our plane down to an ovation from the passengers. (Before I continue and forget, I must rally everybody - do not ever ever ever put yourself through the torture and pain that is watchin...