Trashy Tales By Tom

I was forced to make a change in my trip to Buenos Aires (B.A) because I needed to go to the British Airways office to change my ticket so I could stay longer in South America. After a 20 hour bus trip I made it. The bus ride wasn't that bad because I took a "carma" seat which is like the next step up from the standard seat. Carma only has 3 seats per row on the bus so the seats are bigger and they recline further. They also serve food and wine. B.A is an amzing city and I feel in love with it straight away. I wanted to stay in a couple of hostels that I had heard were good but they were all full so instead I just wondered around with my friend Steve looking for a good hostel. I got very lucky and got a room in a hostel called the Urbano. It was on one of the two famous roads in the center of town so it was close to everything and it occupied the whole top floor of an old colonial building. The rooms were big and spacious but it was the people that made it like home. I ended getting stuck in B.A for a week longer then I wanted because it was so fun. The hostel was closing because the landlord had doubled the rent so it was party party party! There was a big rooftop terrace where everyone hung out and there was always someone there wanting me to drink with them or head out to go see the sites. I went to the cemetry where Eva Peron (Evita) is burried which is like a little city full of moussalems. It was great to walk around in but sad in some places where the tombs have fallen into disrepair. I saw one that looked like it had been firebombed. I also went to La Boca to watch a football game. Boca Jrs is the biggest team in Argentina and its fans are the wildest. They sing songs the whole game and get very roudy. We emptied our pockets of money and took all our jewlery off because we wanted to go into the fanatical section but when we got there tickets were sold out and the scalpers wanted 150 pesos which is so much money in Argentina. As the game started we were still trying to buy tickets at a good price and Boca scored 4 goals in the first 10 minutes so we could hear the croud going crazy. When the croud started singing the whole ground shook and it made us so jelous not to be involved. Another site I went and saw was the congresso building and its plaza. The building is based on capitol hill in the states and is very impressive but a bit boring to go on a tour through. There was a building opposite our hostel that was bassed on some of Dante's books so we took a tour through there which was beautiful but the guide was very boring. When we got to the top the view was spectacular because it is one of the tallest buildings in B.A. Just down the road from my hostel is the widest intersection in the world. The road is called Avenue 9 Julio and it has an amazing 14 lanes. The road is so big that it is hard to cross in one set of traffic lights and because of this it has road islands that make it even wider. It was fun when we went out to try to cross it both ways in one go but we realised that even sprinting you cant make it so eventually we gave up. After two weeks of non stop partying and site seeing I decided to book a bus to Mendoza and the wine country.