A Grand Day Out: December 2006

Feliz Navidad from Buenos Aires!

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas! Hope you all have a lovely day and get lots of nice pressies. We´ve had some good days Christmas Shopping in Buenos Aires and are looking forward to the Christmas service tonight then off to the bars! Here´s a photo of our Christmas tree in the flat!

Did I mention we have a phone in the flat? The number's a bit further down on the 'New Flat' posting.

Special Happy Birthday messages to Sam and Ilker today!!! (and Nik tomorrow!) Have a fab day!

More Waterfalls

Some more lovely waterfall snaps. We moved into the new flat on Saturday and really enjoying it. Great to have a place of our own with Cable TV! Premiership football games live, Frasier, Seinfeld, Friends and Scrubs on everyday and got our first big shop in at the local Carrefour. Really getting into the Argentinian way of life!

Iguazu Falls

We just got back from a trip to Iguazu Falls on the border with Brazil. An 18 hour bus ride was made worthwhile by the jaw-dropping sights and sounds of the waterfalls. The photo´s don´t really get across how massive the whole falls are, so spectacular, really challenging Macchu Picchu for top spot on.

What do you think of the new hats? I wasn´t sure I looked touristy enough what with the bone white complexion so I decided to don my shorts and get a huge cowboy hat just in case any Argentinians were in any doubt.

I´m a celebrity get me out of here!!!!

New Flat

We´re moving flat on Saturday! Into a nice little place in the posh end of town. It has a phone you can call if you like but remember we´re three hours behind the UK so not too early.

It also has an address but I think it would be a bit of a gamble to send anything so don´t send anything at all valuable. We´re there til the 15th of January.

Kieran and Julie
Ayacucho 1463,
7th Piso Apartment F,
Recoleta
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Telephone number of the apartment: (+54-11) 4815-7847

Things are still going well, we´ve had a couple of great trips out of the city which we´ll post some photo´s of soon. The Spanish school is still going well and we´re busy planning the next trip down to Patagonia after Christmas.

KEVIN - just a touch

Throughout the travels, from Mexico to Argentina, whenever I introduce myself as Kieran nine times out of ten I get the same response:
"Kevin?"
No, Kieran
"Kev-in"
No, Kieran
"ah, Kevin"
I then get introduced as Kevin to all others.
I don´t mind the obscurity of the name Kieran, it´s the global domination of the name Kevin which bothers me, from the jungles of Guatemala to the Peruvian Andes everyone knows the name Kevin and no-one knows Kieran.
I put it down to Messers Keegan, Costner and the boy from the Wonder Years.
We then arrive in Buenos Aires to find KEVIN plasted all over the place.
There´s a popular scent here called KEVIN!! "just a touch" indeed.

Which explains the posting below.

Give my love to Kevin

Highlights of Buenos Aires (so far)...

We´re still enjoying life in Buenos Aires, the spanish classes are going well and it´s really hotting up here. It´s not the type of place you can just whip the digital camera out whenever, so the photo´s may be limited over the next few weeks. Here´s a few snaps though...