According to Marcel, a Buenos Aires taxi driver, there are 40 million people in Argentina, of which 20 million live in Buenos Aires itself. According to the Nicky and Gayle guess-tometre approximately 2 out of 10 people in your visual field are showing various forms of displays of affection. Therefore at any given moment, 4 million people are scoring in Buenos Aires.
Spent two days sightseeing in BA, a vibey cosmopolitan city, with couples tango-ing on street corners in the touristy areas. Thanks to our street ´wisdom´ we avoided a near mugging by a 10 and 14 year old who were hassling us down a dodgy part of town. Discovered our two new heroes Eva and Che and purchased biographies for first hand advice on how to see Argentina on a motorbike and start a revolution...
Our youth hostel roomies, were a Brazilian mother and daughter who through broken spanish, english and german we somehow managed to communicate with the daughter, while the mother rattled off to us in Portugese and all we could do was smile and nod, nod nod. We made such an impression, however, that we´ve been invited to Vanessa´s wedding to her German finance in January 2008 in Rio (11minutes - Paulo Coehlo we wondered!!)
We met up with Eubel, Scheibes hot hot man (what a catch!!) who took us to a local Argentinian cafe and had an awesome meal with him and his Argentian friends. Engrossing the energy of the city, Nicky "salud"ed one of our new friends and shattered the glass in her hand.
We then got on a 20 hour bus trip to Puerto Madryn..
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