We arrived late Sunday afternoon so checked into the air bnb, went to the shops, cooked and chilled out at the apartment. It was so nice! It had a balcony of our own, a communal BBQ area and a roof top pool. We were loving it!
The next day (Christmas Eve) we got our ingredients for Christmas dinner and had a pool day!
On Christmas Day we had a pretty chilled out morning before making Christmas dinner. Kerry made her own stuffing, pigs in blankets, yorkshire puds and gravy… but it wouldn’t be christmas without a proper English dinner!! We had dinner, did some what’sapp calling.. drank quite alot of fernet branca and then we went to the pool.
On boxing day we went to Palermo which is a different area to where we were staying and more of a lively area. We had a 3 course lunch here (steak obviously as the main), had a wander around the area before heading back to the pool!
The next day we went into the Center to explore and go shopping! We have become a bit more lazy ‘exploring’ cities now though. At the start of the trip we would walk around non-stop but now after a couple of hours we feel we need the rest… plus we have a roof top pool to go back to, so thats what we did!
The next day we went to the horse races. It was very different to England as there was no strict dress code, minimum bet was about 20p and they didn’t serve alcohol! Kerry won two bets.. Jonho didn’t win any. Afterwards we went to a restaurant at the race course where Kerry got the biggest rack of ribs ever and Jonho had ‘the best steak he has had in Argentina’ and a bottle of wine to share. Later on, we got a taxi to Palermo where all the cool bars are and went out drinking until about 4am!
The next day we had a lie in, had another day around the pool and then met our friend Daniella (the Argentinean girl we rented a car with in Puerto Madryn) as she lives in Buenos Aires. She took us to a nice burger place and we had some beers with her.
The next day we went to a place called San Telmo. There was a big market here where they were selling lots of antiques (not really to our taste) and other bits and bobs. After here we went to La Boca which was cool..everywhere was really colourful and there were tango dancers in the street. We went to see the Boca Juniors stadium whilst here too. Afterwards, we got a bus to Puerto Madero where there was lots of bars and restaurants around the docks which was nice. This was an extremely busy day for us!
The next day was New Years Eve. We got the train to a place called Tigre and took a boat ride down the delta. It went down the back waters so you could see where the locals were living and there were some cool holiday homes and other little houses. We had a walk around Tigre and then headed back to the apartment. The original plan was to stay in, have a curry and drinks and watch the fireworks from the roof top (because all the main bars are closed on NYE here). We did this and then Daniella invited us to her apartment and then we went to puerto madero for the fireworks at midnight. There were lots of Argentineans playing music on speakers, dancing and passing around booze! Jonho was cheered on to down a miniature bottle of whisky.. we were both suprised he wasn’t sick! After here we went back to Daniellas friends house for some more drinks.
The next day was New Years Day. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Everything was closed so we had a very lazy day. We had a lie in and then chilled out around the pool and then in the evening we ordered a takeaway and watched netflix.
On our final day here we planned to go to the parks/ gardens but it turned out to be a bit of a let down as we visited one, another was closed and then it started chucking it down with rain. We had lunch and then went back to the apartment to check out and head to the bus station for our 18 hour bus to Puerto Iguazu…
Kerry and Jonho's Travels 