Hello all..

 

Here we are in Buenos Aires and we are settling in well after just a week here. We are having our intensive Spanish lessons "Hola. ¡Esta Bien? for 4 hours a day and we hate Spanish learning already...no, only joking, but it is hard work trying to be a student again after so long! New York was exciting and exhausing at the same time. Our hotel just off Times Square was perfectly situated at the centre of New York life and the tourist things, so we could just fall out of the hotel and be in the middle of Broadway. However, we did pay the price for being so centrally located by having a tiny room where John and I had to literally squeeze past eachother to get anywhere....still,not a bad start to married life!!

Highlights:

1. The view from the Empire State - fanstatic (if a little chilly)

2. The Chrysler Building - perfect example of art deco and beautiful....

3. The bustle of Central Station, made famous in many films and just as interesting in real life

4. Watching John eat an ENORMOUS salted pretzel from one of the many street stalls

5. The Ellis Island tour for seeing the Statue of Liberty close up and hearing about the history of the immigrants.

6. Enjoying an indulgent bottle of bubbly on the revolving restaurant in the Marriott in Times Square - very posh!!

7. Many, many more things (mostly involving food and seeing our friends Mark and Darlene and their little 2-month old baby, Dillon.



Then to Argentina where at every corner is a BBQ steak house....Steak, steak everwhere...and not just any steak, this is the best we have ever tasted! John is in heaven and I was too for the first 5 days but now I want to find a vegetarian restaurant! Our first proper trip out of Buenos Aires will be to the Igazzu Falls which is an 18 hour bus trip North....mmmm... let's hope it is not a local bus shared with chickens! The Igazu Falls are described in one of the books as...."if you have seen Niagra, that will appear a trickle compared to the sights of Igazu"....well,I don't know if that is true, but we will let you know!



I would try my Spanish skills on this blog, but seeing as all we can do is order steak and wine, I think I'll leave that til later on in the learning process!

That's all for now.

Mel

--Mel