Getting Around Southbound

With only one more day in Buenos Aires, we decided to get out and see a few of the attractions, obviously more shopping, and tried two more restaurants in the hood......my favourite Cafe Cocco, with great coffee and desserts to die for.  We miscalculated the distance between our targets and treated ourselves to a cab ride .......very interesting to be on a six lane wide avenue where nobody really cares where the lines are, but our cabbie weaved his way through without a problem, and only a couple of near death experiences.  Highlights of the tour were the beautiful rose garden, the cemetery where Eva Peron's (Evita) family crypt is located, and a gorgeous stainless steel flower that slowly opens in the morning with the sunrise and closes slowly at the end of the day with the sunset, but a local gal told us in her best English "It's doesn't work.......welcome to Argentina". Getting to know the local beer 1 litre at a time Cafe Cocco The beautif...

 We arrived safely in Buenos Aires (BA) on Christmas Eve, with just enough time for a quick cleanup before heading out to dinner here in the hood.  Our hotel is in Palermo, north BA, a fairly trendy part of town, although it was largely shut down for traditional family celebrations which take place on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day, here in Argentina.  There was no way we were going to make it until midnight, and I had left my tango shoes back at the hotel, so we checked out early and grabbed some much needed shut eye. The Girls ready for dinner If you're going to have a dog it should be haute Up early on Christmas Day, hotel staff advised that it would be almost impossible to get a cab, so we opted for the subway "Sube", and made our way downtown to meet our bicycle tour guide.  Sube was much like the TTC, except there were at least four main lines servicing the suburbs, and other shorter lines for cross town traffic.  Very efficient....

And so another adventure begins, with this one shaping up to be the biggest and best ever.  Jutta and I leave tomorrow evening on a flight to Buenos Aries but will hop back over the Andes to Chile after Christmas, and tour that country top to bottom, before setting out by ship for our final destination, often referred to as "The End of The Earth", Antarctica.  Samantha will join us for the first ten days as we explore Santiago, Valparaiso, the Atacama Desert, a few wineries, and much more, before heading back home for work........yuk.......and we will continue the journey south through the lake district, Patagonia, and end up in Ushuaia, our point of embarkation.  A twenty day cruise on the ship  Hebridean Sky, will take us to the Falkland Islands, St Georgia Islands, and eventually the Antarctic Peninsula before heading home.  In all we should be gone 53 days, returning home on February 15. This blog is as much for us , as it is to share our experiences with ...