Montevideo, Uruguay, is a short 2.5 hour ferry ride from Buenos Aires so we had to check it out. It’s a lovely city - I’m glad we went - but it is SOOOO expensive! We paid more for taxis and meals than we would have in Canada. It’s hard to understand how people survive here. We started our Montevideo experience by going to the local market for lunch. We had the most delicious, perfectly undercooked steak amidst both wonderful and not so wonderful smells, in an overcrowded, ex

On New Year’s Day, everything was still closed. Luckily there was another walking tour - this time of the political area of the city. Buenos Aires is so big - and every part of the city has it’s own feel, it’s own style, it’s own heartbeat. We met at the Congress building, which unfortunately were under construction and were barely visible. We walked down Avenida San Martin, taking in the incredible architecture, and trying to listen to our guide over the big city traffic. Th

It Takes Two to Tango - And You Better Hope I’m Not Your Partner New Year’s Eve in Buenos Aires is the opposite of most of the rest of the world. Everything closed around 6 - including restaurants. Being tourist staying in a hotel with no restaurants open posed a slight problem for dinner. Our only option was to hit the corner store, so our New Year’s Eve feast consisted of a beer, nuts, crackers and a dulce de leche covered biscuit. So by the time we left for our New Year’s

Arriving in Buenos Aires after nearly 28 hours of travel is fairly anticlimactic. It’s pouring, we’re exhausted and starving - but there is something about South America that feels like home. Hearing Spanish and speaking Spanish gives me a rush that I haven’t felt in years. I don’t know how people who don’t speak Spanish make it in these countries, even with my knowledge -getting a taxi and trying to change money took nearly two hours. There is a system where you buy a ticket