Hey hey
Just back from a great day in the area of BA called La Boca- its the 'downtown area' of the city but the most unbelievably exciting place, the streets are brightly coloured = each house is painted lots of bright colours and there is alot of tangoing going on in the streets, this is the area where tango first originated, it was more of a poor mans dance - the dance that the sailors and prostitutes did when trying to woo each other, when the yellow fever epidemic broke out half the people moved into the more posh areas of Recoletta and Palermo where they started Tango too and thats where it grew from. We had a walk around the streets went into the Boca Juniors stadium (they were the team we watched play on sunday and won the league)- for those of you who dont know - La boca is Maradonna's team - unfortunatley we leave on thursday and wont be able to make the next match on sunday at the home ground where Marradonna will be - its great, right in the middle of the seats there is a big yellow sofa where he sits and 60 thousand people chant his name - it would beunbeliavable to see that but alas we need to get the truck out of this fantastic city - too much carnage going on and the budget does not exist any more - i am really looking forward to getting to the Andes and chilling the truck out - this place is goddamn crazy. i must say though, for any interested in coming here - DO - it is such a fantastically vibrant happy and friendly place, it is a bit dilapidated in parts but this only seems to add to its charm - it has so many different areas to explore - from the posh Recoletta with beatifil parks to the vibrant but poor La Boca, the streets are massive the building are fantastic and they have statues of any foreign famous person who ever visited BA in its history - seriously you have never seen such massive and impressive staues in your life, from Ghandi to Columbus. The clubs are great the food is great the wine is great and they are a very welcoming lot. We have made some great friends which we will be sad to part from but no doubt we will be meeting many more along the next 2 months.....i now have added Swedish, French, Brazilian, Australian and more english to the friendship list. Before i go i'll give you a brief update on what we did last night, yesterday was more of the same - walking around getting lost and getting home exhausted - great fun and even managed to get a gallery in there too. We went o ut to dinner with a friend of Jacks's friend in london = who then bumped into his old school mate who is Brazialian and very cute. His father is the Bob Dillan of Brazil apparently and has over 300 recorded songs and his uncle lives in Peru dealing with and exporting medicinal herbal plants...lets not read into that one too much!! we will hopefully be getting in touch with him when we get to Peru - contacts are always great to have ...hmmmm Off finally for some steak and tango this evening before heading off to El Tigre with the boys (we have alot of guy friends which is great - not so many girl friends yet - must be jealous as we keep taking the cute boys on adventures with us!)for a bit of a picnic by the river and chill out session which should be great before leaving muchos early on Thursday morning to the winelands of Mendoza
chat later
and please write to guys - i miss you