We are free to leave Argentina

Have passaportes, so will travel to Peru...the morra..

After one week of negotiating with the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, we have finally been given 10 year passports......the pictures are shocking as we had just spent 2 days on the wine and not much sleep....Debo is on her final warning, as she lost one, got one wet and one stolen all within the last 5 years, so they think she is selling them on, we think...If for any reason this one gets stolen, lost, damaged then she is off back to the UK and has to wait 2 years before she can re-apply...SHOCKING...and that means NO Mum and Dad Williamson you cant send someone over to steal it..!!!! Lets hope we have better luck in Peru and the following 10 months. As this is our last night in Argentina, and our Spanish classes for now are finished, we are off to a posh resturant for some great food and wine....OH dear hangover tomorrow, but no school..HORRAAYY... Love The Bluesxx

San Telmo Market

Its amazing what you can pick up in a market!!!!!!!!!!!

We went to San Telmo market today and it was great. Loads of things to see and buy. Every few steps there would be a street artist or musician and it had a great atmosphere. There was also the nice smell of food, which drove us into this really nice cafe for a sandwich and some beer. We just watched the world go by for a few hours and then walked around in the sun again. Great Day. Tonight we are going to see our friend Gloria off and then head out for some dinner.

Address book

We are having problems with our address book. Could anyone who has not sent us an e-mail in the last month, could you send us a quick message and we will get your details from that. The same goes for anyone who has posted on our blog too. We cant see the blog e-mail addresses to write back to you. Ta much. The Blues

Real reason we are back in BAires...

Robert, Beth, Debo, IB and Gloria...enjoying champagne

(supplied by Robert)

Earplugs are needed if you want to sleep through the Chacabuco traffic !!

We would have posted this earlier but wanted to get everything sorted out and to tell our folks on the phone so they did not worry......(Sorry Mum and Dad Blue that you had to hear it from Al as you are on holiday). Last Tuesday when we were out for lunch in Mendoza and some bugger stole our backpack. We had been to the travel agent to look into flight to Bariloche at the Lake District and in our backpack was our flight tickets, passports, IB MP3 player, driver licence, sunglasses, but no cash.... all gone. We only took our eye off it for 10 seconds and it was gone from under our table. The owner phoned the police and they were there within minutes, one on a bike who tried to find it and 3 in a police car. As like us they knew that it was gone, they offered to take us to the police station to file a report. We approached the police car and there were 2 officers in the front and one big massive one in the back. Once IB was in there was no room for me, but this officer decided there was enough room and manoeuvred my butt in and slammed the door. I did feel slightly violated, but since they all had big guns, decided to keep my mouth shut. At the station when the door was opened we almost fell out. We filed our report, which took 2 hours and is very important, not only for insurance purposes, but for us getting out of Argentina as we do not have an entry stamp on our new passports. We get our new passports in a few days and after many hours arguing with American Airlines, they have issued us new tickets. We think it helped that we had been out the night before with friends and were stinking of booze and looked dog rough after 5 hours sleep. They were meant to charge us $200, but felt sorry for us and give it to us for free. So that is going towards our Spanish lessons. We will claim all the costs back on our insurance and are both okay, so don't worry. Today we are off to school, for 4 hours of Spanish lessons with a playtime at 12. Happy Days....Chao Chicos.x

First Argentinian NED

We meant to say that we met our first "Argentinian Ned" on the bus from Mendoza to Buenos Aires. He came on the bus with his skip cap on the top of his head, trendy gear and a hash logo pendant and t-shirt. We thought he would just go to sleep as he looked stoned, but he played music at volume 11 on his mobile and it was Argentinian techno, techno, techno...which was a bit weird....we expected him to say" aawwright hombre" but he never spoke to us....In the morning after a long bus journey he looked dog rough and drank gallons of Mate tea to get his fix....we have never laughed so much, but he soon shut us up when he turned on his "music phone" again.... ya ancho pura (ya pure wideo)....pure dead brilliant it was...NOT

Back in BA (Shut up fool!!!)

Sunset over San Telmo (from our balcony)

14 hours later, we arrived back in Buenos Aires...the bus was far too hot as everyone was cold....Debo had big swollen feet when we got off....and found it hard to get her boots on, but ok now...food was rubbish and we did not sleep too well....but the taxi drive to the hostel soon woke us up....2 lanes, 15 cars trying to get into the 2 lanes, only 2 can win...luckily we were one of them as our driver kept his nerve....bashes all over the cars here, so Roddy plenty of jobs for you if you wanted (although they dont look to keen on getting them fixed) we are staying at the hostel we stayed at before, which is really nice...the weather is cloudy today, but at least it is still warm...but not to the Argentinians who are still insisting on wearing balaclavas (well not quite but if they could get their hands on them then they would....aaahhhhhhh a niche in the market) we are here for a week and then heading off to Peru...have some things we need to sort out first thou. Tonight we are meeting some people we met at the hostel in Mendoza for some Thai food and nice wine and beer...this life is great... Not sure about the Spanish lessons, as they are looking to be a bit too expensive for our budget, but we will see.... we will keep you posted as the internet cafe is at the bottom of the stairs where we are staying and it costs 0.50pesos for one hour (about 9 pence) the chinese guy who works here, just laughs when we walk in...(bit of a language barrier)....xx

Birthday bash !!!

After a few...and before a few more (hence the big grin)

Went out for the wine tour, which consisted of being driven around and drinking free wine (nice). We went to a couple of vineyards and then were taken to a place which distills their own spirits. We purchased some goods at every stop (surprise, surprise - 3 bottles of wine and a lemoncello spirit cost a total of ten pounds!! ) and then were taken for a huge lunch. When we came back, we were pretty done in, but in true Scottish style, fought tiredness, by drinking some more. Great day !! We are heading back to Buenos Aires at the weekend and reckon it might be a good idea to take some Spanish lessons, before heading to Peru (we are struggling in parts of Argentina, and I reckon Peru and Bolivia will be more challenging on the language front, so it makes sense to at least have some language skills - on the other hand we always have our "point it" book!!).