I awoke in the middle of the night to see a bald, Norwegian, wicked looking fella staring at me while I slept, welcome to dormitory life!! I didn’t even know the lads name! I turned around and went back to sleep….
Anyways this was our final day in Buenos Aires so we met up with the remaining members of the GAP tour for a walk to the San Telmo Sunday Market. Gary held hands with Janina the whole way!! Aaawww!! I can see the potential of a heart broken man in the evening. San Telmo is a cobbled street area of Buenos Aires with a nice atmosphere and was thronged with visitors and market browsers. The market stretches the length of the main street in San Telmo and spills out into the connecting laneways. We spent an hour or two there before heading back to the hostel to prepare for our 14 hr bus journey to Mendoza, the west side of Argentina. We got a taxi to the bus terminal which is more like an airport, Mike and I had to venture around the bus terminal for a half hour trying to figure out which departure gate we needed to go to.
We had a comfortable bus journey to Mendoza with little or no incident. The dinner was fairly good and First Class (Cambio) was worth the extra 7euro!! The movies on the bus were Casino Royale and Training Day, which reminded us of our buddy auld pal back home Kieran. We arrived in Mendoza at 7.30 am and waited at the hostel for our room to be ready. We had a comfortable 8 bed dorm all to ourselves last night, so no fear of scary Norwegians!! Gary didn’t say much since Buenos Aires and drowned his puppy love sorrows in the room while myself, Mike and Conor explored Mendoza. Its nice quiet town with a wide open park in the North end with various trees, a zoo and a lagoon. The main plaza called Plaza Independicia (surprise surprise) is pretty. The town was very quiet today though as Columbus Day (national holiday) is on and the place is pretty deserted par the workers preparing a stage for the celebrations last night. We bought a cake and a few goodies to cheer Gary up but not to much success. We ventured out again that night to see the festivities that were being prepared for earlier. We were still pretty exhausted though and didnt stay long, picking up a cheese burger on the way home for Gary back in the room. Mike nearly got eaten by a dog as we rushed to ensure the burger remained warm. He described it as the best burger he ever tasted.
Choi,
Tom
Anyways this was our final day in Buenos Aires so we met up with the remaining members of the GAP tour for a walk to the San Telmo Sunday Market. Gary held hands with Janina the whole way!! Aaawww!! I can see the potential of a heart broken man in the evening. San Telmo is a cobbled street area of Buenos Aires with a nice atmosphere and was thronged with visitors and market browsers. The market stretches the length of the main street in San Telmo and spills out into the connecting laneways. We spent an hour or two there before heading back to the hostel to prepare for our 14 hr bus journey to Mendoza, the west side of Argentina. We got a taxi to the bus terminal which is more like an airport, Mike and I had to venture around the bus terminal for a half hour trying to figure out which departure gate we needed to go to.
We had a comfortable bus journey to Mendoza with little or no incident. The dinner was fairly good and First Class (Cambio) was worth the extra 7euro!! The movies on the bus were Casino Royale and Training Day, which reminded us of our buddy auld pal back home Kieran. We arrived in Mendoza at 7.30 am and waited at the hostel for our room to be ready. We had a comfortable 8 bed dorm all to ourselves last night, so no fear of scary Norwegians!! Gary didn’t say much since Buenos Aires and drowned his puppy love sorrows in the room while myself, Mike and Conor explored Mendoza. Its nice quiet town with a wide open park in the North end with various trees, a zoo and a lagoon. The main plaza called Plaza Independicia (surprise surprise) is pretty. The town was very quiet today though as Columbus Day (national holiday) is on and the place is pretty deserted par the workers preparing a stage for the celebrations last night. We bought a cake and a few goodies to cheer Gary up but not to much success. We ventured out again that night to see the festivities that were being prepared for earlier. We were still pretty exhausted though and didnt stay long, picking up a cheese burger on the way home for Gary back in the room. Mike nearly got eaten by a dog as we rushed to ensure the burger remained warm. He described it as the best burger he ever tasted.
Choi,
Tom
1 comment:
Feck me lads, I've a lot of reading to catch up on. No idea ye were gonna write every day. Have ye been "sarging" and "amoging" alot?
Louis Saha.
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