Hi there gauchos,
just a quick post of our weekend. I feel like I have ben posting a lot of quick posts. Not the best way to blog, I know.
Basically we had a fantastic time on the weekend. Getting out of the city was just so nice. A 5 hr bus ride was fairly managble on the way there and Ben and I had booked into the best hotel in town. The girls were stoked and Ben fufilled a life long dream of buying something from the mini bar - a pepsi for 2.50 pasos (about $AU 1.20). Tandil is like a country holiday town - people wear thongs (flip flops)in the street and every second shop is a icecream shop. It was much more relaxed than Buenos Aires and at 2-4pm it was like a ghost town - siesta was seriously enforced.
The best thing about the city is a little place called Lo + Pancho where you can buy superpanchos - or as others would call them hot dogs with a ridiculos amount of sauce, cheese, salad, cheese and potato`chips. Did i mention they had cheese?
Actually I´m not sure if I mentioned that you simply cannot buy anything in Argentina without ham and\or cheese - something that was made clear to me when I bought a vegetable pie that came with chunks of ham in it.
We also went horse riding with unshod horses in the countryside and had our first taste of mate. which wasn´t too bad actually. Gabriel our guide and his wife and their two kids took us riding up into hills where we watched the sun set. For the first time in a long time I had an all out belly laugh when my horse decided to gallop alongside sarah´s for no apparent reason except that it was following Gabriel´s horse. It was just so fun.
We also ran into a local fiesta in the street on sunday afternoon which was completly random. It was so cool to see all the neighbourhoods doing a little dance all the way up the main street. So much cool drumming going on too.
We caught an overnight bus back and went straight to lessons which was a little upsetting as we found our beloved spanish teaches had all changed for the new week.
love you all
5 comments:
All looking as though it's lots of fun in the sun!
We had a wonderful thunder storm on Wed afternoon, rain and hail bucketed down leaving everything very very wet.
Going out to dinner tonight with Samantha & parents before she flies back to UK on Fri.
Lou applying for a job in Sydney.
Love Mum xxxx
All looking as though it's lots of fun in the sun!
We had a wonderful thunder storm on Wed afternoon, rain and hail bucketed down leaving everything very very wet.
Going out to dinner tonight with Samantha and parents before she flies back to UK on Fri.
Lou applying for a job in Sydney.
Love Mum xxxx
Who's the silly person who says things twice?
It's my Mum! If you can't say it once with love... say it again!
Sounds like you're having a ball, and so nice when you find some food you really enjoy - superpanchos! Yum! It snowed overnight here in UK. Everything is magically white. James and Will have day off and been playing snow soccer in the garden.
What did the mate taste like?
The pics you took of lime and lemon made it into the magazine - thanks! Mel x
Hi Sah and Phill
Sounds like you're having a great time. So are we - we've had lots of snow! School was closed on Thursday and we made a snowman and played snow football with Mum and Lou.
Bye for now
James and Will
xxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooooooooo
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