Vern: We almost didn't make it down to the southern tip of Argentina. We didn't book a hostel for the night because our flight was scheduled for 5:15am, so we hung out at the hostel (where we had slept the previous night) into the early hours of the morning using the kitchen and the free internet. We definitely overstayed our welcome, but the lady running the place was on an 18-hour shift and too exhausted to kick us out. As we were packing our bags, an Argenti...

Vern: After an early night, we got an early start for our last day in Buenos Aires. We went to go walk the upmarket neighbourhood of Recoleta to check out the famous cemetery that includes ornate mausoleums and is the site of Evita's grave. We walked across town to get there passing some really nice parks on the way, including the United Nations park in which stood the Flor Generica, a giant mechanical flower sculpture that actually opens at daybreak and closes e...

Andrea: One more morning of our hostel 'breakfast' (stale baguettes and delicious Dulce de Leche) and we were off to the next place to see another corner of this expansive city. We had seen a really busy restaurante/parilla the night before and decided the Argentines couldn't be wrong about meat choice so decided that was to be the location for our first meal out in the city. After complaining about only having bread offered to us at breakfast, we ironically pol...

Vern: Buenos Aires is definitely growing on us, though we're still a long way from figuring out the porteno´s daily routine. They seem to do everything four hours later than the rest of the world (lunch in the late afternoon, dinner between 10 and 12, and the nightlife only fires up about 1am and goes until 4ish, 6ish or noon the next day. Smaller businesses (and entire towns, in less urban areas) shut down between 1pm and 4pm for siestas but those working ...

Vern: "No quiero a morir!" A man screaming in his sleep woke himself yelping, "I don't want to die!" and, in this way we were welcomed to our 21-bed dorm in central Buenos Aires yesterday. Their website said 12 beds, but the staff don't seem to care that their webmaster is dyslexic. We put our stuff on the only free beds inconveniently opposite the pro-life sleeptalker. Massive paintings of distorted forlorn faces hung down from the double volume ceilings like ...