Argentina

 Thursday 8th April

Quick update on where we are – after a 22 hour day we arrived in Buenos Aires at 5 this evening and got a shuttle in to town.  We are staying in an apartment for the next week, partly to give us a chance to have a bit of our own space and be able to cook for ourselves for a night or two and partly because of the value, only €70 per night.

Our flights today took us through Santiago, Chile though we only transited it – Still plenty of work going on to tidy up after the earthquake, some of the shops in the Airport were restocking and getting ready to reopen after some corrective work and a paint job.  Having said that, the airconditioning wasn’t too great, perhaps that was still on the “to do”list.  Nothing obvious on the runway (just as well!) and the airport seemed to be operating almost normally. 

Judging by tonight’s very brief visit out for food, cost is not going to be a problem here at all!  A very light evening meal, one course for each of us plus 5 (large) glasses of wine worked out somewhere south of €30!  (After 22 hours travelling, you need something to get you back in the swing of things!) And we didn’t even go looking, it was just the first place that looked OK (‘bout a block from where we are staying).  Service was excellent, very bright and cheerful and portions were huge – the ravioli I had would easily equate to two back home and in taste it was much better.  The first tourist brochure we picked up had an advert for a restaurant with 18 different types of meat, so steaks’ are our next night’s food search! 

Plenty photos to go up from NZ and some late ones from Aus, will try and do that over the next few days.  After that, it’s off to Peru and a trip on a riverboat on the Amazon – details here if you are interested. 

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