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My Bday BBQ with couch surfers. Many thanks guys. Diego the meat was incredible good!!!

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Xmas in Buenos Aires

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:01:29 -0800 Argentina - Buenos Aires http://wobistn.posterous.com/argentina-buenos-aires-54976 http://wobistn.posterous.com/argentina-buenos-aires-54976

Hmm crazy to see once. Its a quite famous "sport" in Ba

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:53:39 -0800 Argentina - Buenos Aires http://wobistn.posterous.com/argentina-buenos-aires-37633 http://wobistn.posterous.com/argentina-buenos-aires-37633

CouchSurfing Meeting :-)

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:53:12 -0800 Argentina - Buenos Aires http://wobistn.posterous.com/argentina-buenos-aires-12598 http://wobistn.posterous.com/argentina-buenos-aires-12598

Wow what a crazy football match. Some videos will follow when i have better inet speed :-)

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Yummy :-)

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Tango is sexy and cool and i will try to keep on dancing it :-)

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Manuela i wants to have your car :-)

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Diego my friend!!!

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Shame but i went to the hair dresser :-)

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My tour was the right decision!!! I am so happy even when i am missing you guys. Someone a lot :-)

Be hugged!!!

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In Bunos Aires arrived i though it will be easy to collect some pesos at the air port. Wrong guessing :-(.  From the 2 ATM no one was working for me. Luckily I found a guy who could help me out to pay the bus ticket. Even it was just 2 pesos (normal bus price) i was really thankful. The way to my first Couch surfer place became more complicated as i had to change to the subte and then to walk 10 blocks. So i was walking 2hours with my big backpack and day pack in front and this in a really packed subte during the night. My first experiences with the subte was just crazy as when i tried to enter and to use my ticket 100 people wanted to exit and i had no chance to enter especially not with my big backpack. I was jumping from one site to the other until i decide to enter via the emergency exit :-) . I was really tired when i arrived my couch surfer host. Anyway we talked a lot and had a nice empanada & pizza  dinner.  I spend 1 month to enjoy night life to went up for an tango course and to learn Spanish only 4days :-(. Ba is just crazy. its already an adventure to ride the subte(subway).  Lina c,b is so packed that you come so close to people as you might be would been just in the bed :-).  Anyway there must be somehow still place for kids to juggling fruits or whatever they could find. Also quite often you'll have life music or people who selling strange stuff like hair tie. I like the way how people go out. As you might be already heard the night just start at 1am and you will dance till the morning around 9. After such long nights i went to places to eat a big big cake :-) . Yes usually i would finish a party night with a burger. People who knows me well (Denise,Rub,Sebo) knowing what i mean. As the tortas are so good and cheap >~18 pesos< you have to go for it. When you go out make sure to look for places which offer free entrace as mostly exist. Ba offers a lot of activities like cinema,discos or galleries for free. In my memory defienetly remains the party night with Flavia who i met via CouchSurfing. She invited me for a 80s party. I had some beers to much and when we went home we where walking strange ways till her feeds hurting a lot. I am so sorry but i am still a bad in navigation :-)

I stayed almost 3 weeks at a couch surfing place. Diego my host  was like a brother to me and we became friends for a lifetime. Since the beginning i realize his warm nice kind to be with people.  I miss those guy. He always tried to teach me Spanish and i was so bad:-(.  I cooked a chili for him with cream fresh which my ex introduced once to me. Hmm the cream fresh was more like a sauce that's why the whole meal became more a soup :-( . Together we cooked quite often steaks with salad.  i couldn't have had enough from the nice steaks. That's why i was eating them almost each day for lunch and dinner. You'll not miss chips or whatever a steak with salad is definitely enough. Usually you pay something between 38-50 pesos for a steak with papa fritas and a soft trink. You can also find cheap places in the pedestrian zone close to the Avenida 9 de Julio in the direction of Florida street. Avenida 9 is the widish street of the world. in the florida street you can find a famous shopping Mal with nice roof paintings. If you once wants to have a really nice steak at a famous place in ba go for La Cabrera in palermo in Cabrera 5099. They also offer kobe beef. Between 19 and 20 you can have all for 50% off but be in time as you only have those one hour to finish your meal :-).

Don't spend you the money for the tourism buses as you can have easily see all the places by your own. Otherwise following org can organize free tours www.cicerones.org.ar. I would recommend the following places respectively activities:

Tango with dni-tango:
Actually this was for me a big challenge and if i say the truth i went to a bar before to drink a beer to be more relax . The next times it wasn't necessary as i realize each is just concentrated their own steps and all wants to have fun. I was dancing with a teacher as i went alone there. Wow what a luck as she could teach me in a one to one session and corrected me immediately. Hmm what i should say she was so sexy and i was so shy. I always went on a distance while dancing. She tokes me than closer to her body and told me that's the way how to dance tango. Important your hips have to be on distance which i haven't done :-)

Spanish course:
My course went only 4 days due to an public holiday in the 1week i booked me. i met a guy who was working for Panalpina London (my ex company). So small is the world.

Horse Racing in Palermo:
I know its not good what they doing with the animals. Anyway i wanted to see it once. Hmm i bet also and won double and a little more what i spend :-)

Palermo Park:
Those park and the whole palermo are is really worse to do not haven't seen. Actually the district is a little posh but we all should allow us sometimes something. So go to enjoy some cafes around.

Botanical Gardens:
Such park is my favorite one. The park isn't that much big but for me it remembers me a little bit to kirstenbosch in South Africa which are always nice memories. I did enjoy the day after my birthday there with a cafe and 2 big peaces of cake.

Japanese Garden:
Its nice but you'll need to pay for those park. I would suggest to skip those one and to go into rose gardens which is almost the same style.

Rent a bike:
Discover the parks around palermo! I will do this again when i am going back to Ba. Si i am going back...

Football:
I booked me a tour for a match of boca juniors. That match was quite special as they managed to win the championship that time. Awesome i never was feeling that emotions in a football stadium. Just with their voices while singing fan songs the whole stadium was vibrating. They had fireworks for the beginning of the match organized by the stadium :-).  A lot of confetti covered the field but nobody takes care :-) With some guys i met at my hostel i went to such match. As we went there via a tour we had free pizza and beer included. What else you want more :-) :-).  After that match we celebrate together the success.

La Boca:
Hehe again something that remembers me to South Africa. Those district has a lot of colorful nice old buildings. But be careful this area can be quite dangerous by night so go not later than 16h.

Cathedral at plaza de mayor:
When i went there i could listen up some classical music. Imagine in such a place such music. I got a huge chicken skin.

Close to the station where the tourism bus departure you can often almost each day listen some street music which is really good. take you some snacks like tortas :-) and enjoy it to nice music.

Each Sundays you will have a big big market close to the plaza de mayor. i tried to walk the whole street(sorry don't remember the street name) which is almost impossible.

Tango show are everywhere but in san telmo you will find the famous ones.

The cemetery in recoleta is usually something what i wouldn't like to see but in south america the cemetery's are just crazy and the one in ba isn't worse for a visit especially not because there are a lot of nice cafes.

If you are couch surfer heading your self to the meeting as those guys are cool and you will find people could taking you out for ba nightlife as it was for me the case.

I spend my bday in Ba which was for me quite special. It was unfortunately my 30 Birthday :-)  but nice couch surfer and Diego organized an unforgettable BBQ and nigh for me. Diego was our chef cooker. I was so happy to have my bday together with Diego At my bday i get used to fernet coke hmm with ice cubes. really good. I remember Bernardo Tarillion my ex colleagues from Panalpina was always drinking it. Claro he is argentina :-).  Boys and girls drinking it like water. After our bbq we went in a really crazy club with black music. We end up there till the late morning. We went out as the last guests and i am still asking myself if the bar keeper lady was wearing a top or not :-) :-)  ohhhh what a strange few&memory. The bus ride home i was sleeping while diego did flirt with an lady.

You can always spend your days in the parks. Just buy you a bottle of cerveza and a cake and enjoy the afternoons as i did with Manuela. It was nice to chat with her as she was so cute and wanted to improve her German. I remember your car.

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