Hostel living is better than I expected - I say at destination one. Sure I haven't had a proper nights sleep due to the humidity, noise, creaky beds and fear of falling out of bed - I'm on the top bunk with no barrier!! Eeek! But this is not bothering me at all...yet. I had hostel coffee the other morning and it was actually decent for instant coffee, or maybe I'm just really caffeine deprived. Regardless yay to "free" caffeine. I love Buenos Aires. It's a truly...

I report to you from the town of La Plata. Getting here certainly was an adventure. The advice on trip advisor was not to walk to Retiro. However after my experience of getting totally ripped off by a taxi driver, plus my desire to get fit and it being a lovely day, I decided to ignore said advice. This was fine until I got to Plaza San Martin and suddenly found myself walk in circles. Not ideal. At this point I decide it's probably better to trust the map and no...

Buenos Aires, I have arrived. I won't bore you with the details of my flights, except to say they were long and boring, and travelling with a cold is not ideal. My bag was one of the last ones to come out, so naturally I thought my bag was lost. And given my phrase book was packed in my backpack, I got pretty nervous. Rookie error. Could have been reading and brushing up on my tiny knowledge of Spanish on my three looooooong flights. What a disaster. I liter...

A year ago I promised myself that I would start 2013 overseas and I actually did it. The day has come. I'm sitting here in the gate lounge waiting to board my flight. It just doesn't seem real. I don't imagine it will until I land in BA in approximately 36 hours. It's really happening!