We struggled to get going this morning despite both settling alarms as today we are off to Colonia. Colonia is a small city in Uruguay across the river from Buenos Aires. The River Plate is the worlds widest river at this point being about 100km across. You are crossing to a new country so have […]
Buenos Aires Day 5: 22nd October
I had a frustrating start to the day being unable to load photos for the blog and Mike was also having internet problems. We find that we lose connection to data even off wifi and when we have loads of bars on our phone. How quickly you come to expect uninterrupted, fast internet everywhere in […]
Buenos Aires Day 4: 21 October
We had booked to go to ‘The Argentinian Experience’ tonight but they were full with availability tomorrow. All good except my phone was not playing the game with the internet. No issues with my iPad but for some reason my phone is very sensitive. Anyway that led to a frustrating 40 minutes while we rebooked […]
Buenos Aires: Day 3 20th October
Mother’s Day in Argentina. My children did not get the memo! We slept late and almost missed breakfast which goes from 7.30-10.30 (it’s included with the room). It was not so warm. We did some hand washing and could peg it out on the chairs on the terrace. I tried option 1of the 3 breakfast […]
Buenos Aires Day 2: 19th October
We found that we could watch the All Blacks Ireland game on TV but only with Spanish commentary. Mike managed to get connected to Spark Sport through his iPad and it had good connection but played 5 minutes behind the tv on the screen. I turned down the volume and got to watch in advance […]
To Buenos Aires 18th October 2019
We dropped Casper at the Metropaws LuxuryLodge for cats and got to Auckland Aiport in good time. I had booked a space in park E and managed to almost get lost finding the car park and then finding a space. Eventually got sorted and checked in ok. We spent about an hour in the Koru […]