Buenos Aires again - riots! (not)

Back to BA again, and there was a national holiday to do with the Mothers of The Plaza de Mayo, who are still demonstrating to get justice for their children who went "missing" under the old regime during the "Dirty War". So there were lots of people in the streets with banners and playing samba. Mostly seemed all cheerful and positive enough. But then we went near the bus station, and there were kids standing around with scarves wrapped round their heads and huge sticks, standing in vaguely menacing groups, and smashing the signs on the subway. We stepped into a shop to look for tourist tat, just as they were literally battening up the hatches, "just in case". Across the road, a mini squad of cops with their own sticks were hanging around with their huge vans with the snow/people scoops on the front, in case any real trouble began...! But in the end everything seemed to go reasonably peacefully as far as I was aware.

Buenos Aires and Colon

First day here it was raining! But now the sun is out again yeehaa! Its a lovely city, with lots of ice cream places and beef places of course. I had a "minibefe" the other night which was basically the size of a normal steak in the UK in a restaurant, but for a third of the price! Mmm it should be called Buenos Atkins. However, for all the meat, there´s a hell of a lot of fat heifers here, so they must be having lots of chips to go with it.

The city is really vibrant. People are friendly, and have had some really good nights out - clubs don´t really start until about 2am, so you get to see the sun rising before you get on your way home.

Have seen tango dancers performing in the streets, stayed in a hostel with fleas in the beds, visited a small beach town south of BA, where there happened to be a big music festival on which was cool, and after that travelled up north along the coast to Colon, another small beach town where I visited a national park called Palmar, which was really pleasant and peaceful, and saw some big lizards roaming free, which I was really excited by.