First day in Buenos Aires so we hit the streets after a substantial breakfast which included fruit and wholemeal bread, maybe this healthy diet business won´t be so hard after all. Although there were some nice crossant type things called mediolunas which are nice but not good for the digestion I´m sure!! Still need to work out how I do a workout in my hotel room... we´ll see!
Had a long walk round the city which seems cool, but after a while one building/ cobbled street looks like another!! Oh and watch out for the dog poo it´s everywhere! So many dogs here! Had a quick shower and hit the restaurants. Lomo which is filet steak is the thing to eat here and why not!
Argentine were playing Peru in the playoffs for the wolrd cup so the streets were deserted and every restaurants was empty except for waiters mesmerised my vast TV screens showing the action. After a long walk found a place with a real rustic feel even though the menu s seemed to have different prices depending whether they were in English or Spanish. Hmmmm
Lomo was fantastic so we hit a bar- there was a great drag show on the highlight being a guy/ girl doing the theme from Phantom of the Opera- only both parts!! I a great split outfit! Chatted to some locals and made our first silly mistake in Spanish (of many I´m sure) When asked what our nameswere Rob replied Me Lama Robert which translates as "I lick myself Robert". For all you fans of Spanish out there it should have been "me llama (pronounced shama) Robert.
Also had our first discussion re the Falklands but all in good humour with a guy who looked just like Jesus and who wasn´t even Argentine! He was Spanish.
These were very insistent we went to the next club- Club Amerika- but as it was 5am already and the club didin´t finish til 9am we decided that we had had enough! Argentinians obviously have greater staying power and they carried on.
