noisy neighbours

Got out of town today, took a day trip to Tigre (about an hour on the train) then a boat trip to Tres Bocas, where we had a taste of life on the river delta, and imagined being in "True Blood". all very peaceful and relaxing...

Tango is very much all around in this city, it´s no cliche - you can´t go anywhere without a picture of the old legend Carlos Gardel smiling down at you - we´re gonna go check out a "milonga", where the locals do their business, later on tonight, hopefully stay out of the way otherwise we´ll be obliged to strut our stuff too! lots of entertaining tube journeys, either featuring buskers playing heartrending violin or live comedy shows... probably wouldn´t get so far doing that in rush hour in London, but the locals seem quite amenable to it all.

Must say, much as we´re loving our flat - we´re not loving our neighbours in our apartment tho - this dreadlocked and probably highly stoned Argentinian with a penchant for blaring out reggae at 2am so loudly you´d think he was actually in the room with you, holding his speakers over your head. have been downstairs to ring the buzzer a coupla times and he fortunately seems to take the hint, but God help me (or him?!) if he does it again tonight... Had our meal out with the Brazilian couple last night, to be fair the steak wasn´t quite up to the standard of previous ones we´d had (and this was in swanky Puerto Madero - which is a bit of a tourist trap perhaps), but we now have offers of somewhere to stay in Sao Paulo (well, Americana, about an hour away, to be exact) if we can make time in our busy Brazilian schedule. But that´s a coupla months away yet...!

lots of love to you all - say hi so we know you´re out there!! xx