moved into our apartment now!

Here´s a few photos from the last couple of days. We´ve moved into our flat now. It´s lovely and ramshackle with muy autentico old-skool furniture and a slight musty smell. We were greeted by a lovely lady called Alicia and a massive dead cockroach but I realised we´re gonna have to get used to the old exotic insects.

Last night we went to Maradona´s fave pizza joint (allegedly), Guerrin, in the centre of town. It was brilliant and cheap as chips (or pizza). We had a few slices washed down with sweet moscato wine and chatted to the waiters (conversation largely consisting of me saying "que es esto? y eso?"). On the way to get some churros in a fab 50s style cafe, we stumbled across a Socialist Party demonstration on one of the main streets. Loads of youngsters at midnight on a Saturday waving banners and chanting rousing slogans - so young and so politically engaged! Makes you proud to be British...hmm..

And to prove that eating is not all we´re doing... Today we wandered into La Boca (see photo of Caminito balcony). It turned out Boca Juniors were at home so there were hordes of slighly intimidating fans all over the place. Much as Palermo Viejo is leafy and stylish, it was good to get a different perspective of the city... and then get the hell out of there before it got dark!!

We also had a fab lunch (ha ha ha) in San Telmo - sweetbreads and meat from the parrilla. We met a nice couple from Sao Paulo and somehow arranged to meet for dinner again tomorrow night, despite the fact that our Portuguese is very poor and their English and Spanish much the same! So hopefully they´re nice but who knows...

The Cocina Discreta turned out to be just the two of us, so it was about as as "discreta" as you can get, but it was a great evening, and we´re looking forward to checking out some more of these "behind closed doors" joints. We´re settling nicely into our local barrio, have found a few less chi-chi bars (one of them played Devo until Becka started singing along loudly, at which point the barman promptly replaced it with some latin jazz), where they either give you free pizza, popcorn or monkey nuts (see photo of cool bar and Becka).

(PS have just heard that Spurs scored nine goals today. NINE GOALS!!! i think celebration may be in order...!!)

love to you all xx