Day 37

Wednesday 8^th December 2010

All is well, the flight is confirmed, we can pack our bags and head to the Airport. And apart from a few fairly big queues (English style) it all went swimmingly.

We boarded the flight on time and settled in for a quick three hours inside a metal cylinder full of other peoples farts.

We arrived in Buenos Aires (BA to the kids) about 16:00 and a bloke picked us up and took us to the hostel. The hostel is called the Art Factory and its really cool, they let local artists in to do murals and that on the walls, and then every bedroom is unique. We really like it.

Suz had been reading the BA guide and found a pub that does happy hour from six so we headed down there for a few cheap scoops. The beer is called Quilmes (kill-mez) and goes down a treat, at a pound a pint! We went into the pool room and some local lads were there, really friendly and like most of the people we’ve met so far, just wanted to practice their English (which means our Spanglish is getting no better). They we’re good lads and we settled into and evening of pool (for me), banter and lots and lots of Quilmes.

It got too late to move on so we decided to have tea there, I’m not sure what I had but Suz reliably informs me that it was a burger. Suz had steak and ale pie and ½ a pound of wedges!

One of the lads we met was an Independiente supporter and was off to watch the second leg of the Final. They were playing a Brazilian side called Goias in their equivalent of the Champions League. Independiente got beat away in Brazil 2-0 so had to score three to win. Unbelievably at full-time it was 3-1 and went to extra time and then a penalty shoot out that Independiente won!!

More beers flowed and at about 01:00 we headed back to the hostel. The hostel has an open air bar on the roof and seeing as I hadn’t drunk enough we decided (I decided) that we should drink more! We found some Scandinavian fellas on the roof and gabbed away for another couple of hours. Suz went off to bed at 02:00 and I followed just after at 03:00 ……….. ish.

I think were gonna enjoy BA!