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Hi, this is our last moring of our trip and we thought we would just update you to say that we hope that our flights are ok and we should get home sometime on wednesday afternoon. It´s raining here in Buenos Aires so we are not too sad to be leaving. We are both looking forward now to coming home. Harriet is especially looking forward to the garden and seeing sooty again. Mike is looking forward to home cooking and being able to put the loo paper down the loo instead of in a basket next to it. The plumbing in latin america can´t take loo paper! One of the jobs in La Hesperia was the weekly burning of used loo paper!
Celebrated our last evening at a fantastic tango show. Never sounds quite the same when listening to CD´s. We ate steak, of course, and one of the numbers was Don´t cry for me argentina in spanish. Yes we know its not tango but the argentines love it. There were a few tears around.
Harriet has bought a pair of hand made black and white dancing shoes and mike has bought a lovely leather jacket.
The big news here is the comemoration of 25 years since the Guerre de Islas Malvinas, Falklands war. It has been interesting to see their perspective on the war. All maps of argentina include the islands as though they still own them! They even give the weather in the islands in the national weather forcast.
Signing off now. Fingers crosse for the journey home
Mike and Harriet
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