Week 10 - Buenos Aires
After four weeks away visiting family Gaby flew back to rejoin the trip at Buenos Aires. Given she would be jet lagged we decided on spending four days in the city. From a practical point by of view this was a good choice but it was a city neither of if us really liked or took to, and we were glad to move on at the end of this. BAs problem is it is big (4 million people), noisy, dominated by cars and has no real distinguishing sights or features of its own.
Our destination after BA was Uruguay which meant one days traveling and one last night in Argentina before crossing the border. Getting out of BA is an adventure- a huge intertwining network of 6-10 lane motorways funneling you and thousands of would be Formula 1 drivers first one way and then another; without GPS it feels it would be a suicidal mission, with, its only a nightmare - like a video game with serious consequences of you make a wrong move (in case you haven't worked it out, no I did not enjoy it).
The last night in Argentina was so spent in the town of Guarlaguaychu - a small, quiet and remarkably pleasant river side town and a wonderful antidote to BA.
After four weeks away visiting family Gaby flew back to rejoin the trip at Buenos Aires. Given she would be jet lagged we decided on spending four days in the city. From a practical point by of view this was a good choice but it was a city neither of if us really liked or took to, and we were glad to move on at the end of this. BAs problem is it is big (4 million people), noisy, dominated by cars and has no real distinguishing sights or features of its own.
Our destination after BA was Uruguay which meant one days traveling and one last night in Argentina before crossing the border. Getting out of BA is an adventure- a huge intertwining network of 6-10 lane motorways funneling you and thousands of would be Formula 1 drivers first one way and then another; without GPS it feels it would be a suicidal mission, with, its only a nightmare - like a video game with serious consequences of you make a wrong move (in case you haven't worked it out, no I did not enjoy it).
The last night in Argentina was so spent in the town of Guarlaguaychu - a small, quiet and remarkably pleasant river side town and a wonderful antidote to BA.
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