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Saturday, March 24, 2012

FAREWELL ARGENTINA, HELLO SINGAPORE

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-deliciou
ICE-CREAM

Sales man in the train selling pens
mate

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