We´re alive and safe in Buenos Aires

Hola amigos! We survived the plane trip which wasn´t so bad. From Melbourne to Buenos Aires in about 20 hours, with a couple of stops in Sydney and Aukland on the way. I can´t say much about Argentinian in flight entertainment, the airhostest didn´t even run through the safety procedures at the start of the flight, which is one of my favorite parts. Instead they had this dodgy computer animation. However, the food was pretty good compared to the usual aeroplane fodder, and we arrived safely with all our baggage so I can´t really complain.

From the aeroport we got a taxi, which I tried to enter via what, in Australia, would be the front passengers door, which in Argentina is of course the driver´s side door. I soon realised my mistake upon seeing the stearing wheel and pedals where I was planning to sit and made my way to the right side of the car (what an awesome pun). After Monkey, the taxi driver and the rest of the people waiting for taxi´s stopped laughing we were on our way into Buenos Aires, where all the roads are one way and the people drive like crazy. Although, despite the hazardous traffic, our trusty cabby managed to deliver us safely to our hostel, which monkey had only got onto at the last minute after finding out 2 days before we left that the first hostel we booked was actually full.

That´s why it was so funny when we arrived at the hostel and the guy working there pretended not to speak english, after our awesome spanish skills failed us, and gestured that he didn´t know about our reservation and that there were no more rooms. Luckily he was only joking (hilarious), so we have beds and shelter and can communicate with people as most of the people working and staying at the hostel can speak english. But we didn´t come here to speak english so we´re going to do some spanish lessons that have been recomended to us by other aussie travellers and sound pretty good and, like everything else here, are rediculously cheap. So that´s the plan for now, work on our spanish in Buenos Aires until we can get by in a conversation with the locals then see where we go from there.

That´s all for now. Keep in touch,

Plummers