Good bye - Argentina
On the way back to Buenos Aires, coming from Salta, it was the last time to see the beautiful mountains of the Andes with snow on the top but in the car 40 degrees C.The surroundings change from dessert to green fields that looked like Kruger National Park but without animals.Later it looks flat like Holland with the cows and mielie fields. Then we saw the skyline of Buenos Aires with the smog hanging over the capital city.
It was also nice to be back in a familiar surrounding, with bus number 17, Plaza de Mayo and the icecream shops.
AND of course......I finally went to buy my TANGO SHIRT!!!
In the last few days I started saying goodbye to Argentina and looking forward to our new destination/Singapore/Australia. I was wondering what I would miss most from Buenos Aires & Argentina :
What we will miss most:
- to see the excitement of Strikes and Protests nearly every 2nd day
- football on every TV in bars and restaurants
- ALL bars and restaurants have FREE WIFI
- the kind flower-stall-girls and the building attendants
- dog walkers
- beautiful old elevators
- Mate (the tea that every one drinks here)
- Carton-eras (homeless people who collect the paper rubbish)
- Beautiful Andes
- Ice creaaaaaaaaaaaaaam !!!!
- Great lomo (beef filets)
- Nice and friendly people in the Province
- our own Sube cards and the bus number 17
- Trying to cross walking the 9th Julio with all green lights from the traffic lights(never succeeded)
- the stores which has "Liquidation /Sale"
- the salesmen selling pens, torches.etc on the buses and trains
- Kissing everyone on the cheeks, waiter,taxi driver etc
What we won't miss:
- The rubbish in the streets of Buenos Aires
- Not always petrol in the petrol-stations and cash in Banks
- Unfriendly hotel owners and receptionists in the City
- queues for banks, post offices
- Big arrogant companies who want money for personal services (FEDEX) while they are not even doing their job properly and make your parcel disappears.
- dirty toilets
- itching mosquito bites
- the noise of the city
- having dinner at 23.00 hours and staying up too late
- graffiti on the walls
- Super inflation!!
What I will really really really miss is the over-delicious
ICE-CREAM
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| Sales man in the train selling pens |
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| mate |
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| SUBE card and long queue |
Thank you ARGENTINA , thank you READERS for all your nice comments so far
Are you following me to Asia?
MUCHAS GRACIAS
kreeftonthemove
Louisa
Hello Loes,
ReplyDeleteWhile you make the effort to write in English I have to do so also I guess :-(.
You don't know me, Lilian (yet) but your mom and dad are old schoolfriends of my husband Marco. They just re-connected and so we are able now to follow your fantastic journey!!! I have to admit that I'm quite jalours. Specially because you got to fulfil one of my biggest dreams; dancing the tango in Argentina WOWWWWWW! You also have to learn the Flamingo when you arrive to Spain, promissed? I will follow you and your brothers stories for sure! Want to give you a big compliment about the way you write, really entertaining! You will easily get a job in travelindustry the way you do interest people! Looking forward to reading your first blog from Singapore and hopefully we can meet some day, maybe in the Netherlands or in SA!! Groetjes van Lilian uit Hilversum
Hey Lilian
ReplyDeleteWOW,that you are reading my blog and giving me many compliments,and that i don't know you (yet).I do hope to get a job easily in the travel industry but first I have to learn the Flamingo!!I will ask my mom and dad about your husband,what is his last name?
hope to see you in Cape Town in a year,or maybe elsewhere in Europe.
Regards from Australia.Loes and the kreefts