Welcome to our first blog posting. And it really is the first time we have done this as will doubtless become apparent when we have technical glitches along the way, so please bear with us!!
So we have made it to South America. We flew out to Buenos Aires, Argentina on Monday 20 June and arrived on the Tuesday morning after a 14 hour flight. As we are here for a couple of months we have rented a small flat in Palermo Viejo, which is a little out of the centre but is close to plenty of places to eat and drink. Those of you who know us will know that we do enjoy a juicy steak and a bottle of wine, and we didn't seriously think we could break that habit overnight, especially in the homeland of our much visited Gaucho restaurants (http://www.gauchorestaurants.co.uk/), so we gave in to the inevitable.
But we also chose the flat to be close to our chosen language school. We want to learn a bit of Spanish to help us get to know the locals and make the most of our travels. We start lessons on Monday and are doing 20 hours per week, so hopefully that will keep us out the bars for a while and doing something useful! We have been challenged to learn two extra words a day each - so far most of them have been connected to food and drink too - I'm concerned there is a pattern forming here!
So aside from unpacking, finding our way around and sampling the delights of empanadas, steak and dulce de leche, we haven't done too much so far, but we expect to start on some of the tourist stuff soon.
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