Bueno Buenos Aires

So we pulled up to our hostel in Buenos Aires about 4 in the afternoon, only to see a massive queue for something next door. Everyone in the line was dolled up as if going out, it was bright, sunny and hot...where were they going? Apparently this is a 24 hour club which only opens at the weekends but stays open pretty much all the time. Bizzare, yes.

We wandered down to the Sunday Antique Market later that evening, hundereds of trinkets, retro phones, calculators, cameras, playing cards, books, shoes, vintage clothing, the list is endless, they had EVERYTHING. Really amazing stuff. Wandering through the marketm every 200 yards or so there would be a live jazz band at the side of the street and various people doing the tango in the middle of the street. We came across a restaurant that had actually been recommended to us, so we went in. Steaks the size of our heads arrived at the table, along with bread, fries, mash, red wine. It´s no lie when they say the best steaks in the world are Argentine.

We´ve been in BA for a little over a week now, still wandering the wide Parisian-esque pavements and exploring the scores of vintage shops. BA is the kind of place I´d like to visit, buy a load of furniture and clothes and ship them all back home. There are some amazing finds out here. Altoghether, it´s quite European in comparison to all the other South American cities we´ve been to, quite stylish and everyone walking the streets is beautiful.

The one thing we didn´t find to our tastes was a festival we ventured to on Saturday. REM headlined which was definitely worth our time, especially seen as the tickets were only about 30 quid, Bloc Party and Kaiser Chiefs also played which isn´t really worth recounting but the headline act really made it a great gig. However, to our absolute discust and dismay, there was not a drop of alcohol to be found in the place. AT A FESTIVAL. WHY? I´m still absolutely dumbfounded by the whole thing, it makes absolutely no sense to me. Dan and I questioned this for a good three hours of the evening, at one stage even wanting to find some staff so we could have an explaination for this outrage. Unfortunately we didn´t, and a festival without people walking around with beers, making random mates, dancing to no music, running around with no clothes on and just being generally obnoxious is not really a festival now, is it?