Boarding Card

Have just printed out my boarding card for tomorrow... well, for the first flight anyway, for some reason I can´t get the Madrid/Amsterdam flight for now, no doubt because it´s not till a day later. So I have the back window seat on the right hand side which I hope will let me see some of the coast of South America. Ok, off out for my last day here.

For the Boekgrrls

The mural is in Colonia, the library in Bs/As.

Buenos Aires by bike

Got to borrow a bike from the hostel across the road yesterday and had a great day cycling about the city. In between my visit to the Iberia offices to confirm my flight home (which wasn´t necessary after all despite the advice from Cheapotickets.nl that it was) and looking up theatres I saw various people with whole hordes of dogs on leads. It´s quite something to see dogs on leads again after all the roaming strays of Patagonia and these were a lot of dogs. After a while came across the park where they all congregate and are let out in smaller groups in a fenced off area. More photos, including of course yet another Max, to come. (I had to wait for Max the WonderWeimer to die before making this trip but he´s still following me around, even after I'd discarded the tiny bits of his remains I brought with me :-) More about the last photo later as that´s more a part of today´s ´programme´. I got caught up in a protest march at one point and also cycled through the harbour area and a bit of a nature park bordering on it, which is wonderfully green and peaceful after the traffic chaos of the city.

In the evening to Eva, which was very well done as a piece of theatre with lots of good use of archive film and creative scene changes but nothing spectacular. Ah well, at least it gave me a chance to wear my best frock, which had been hanging in my showerroom for 2 days to decrease it after a month in the corner of my rucksack. Really enjoyed the walk home, via 2 still open bookshops, bought a book and a cd at almost midnight, which was a novelty in itself really.

For Rianne

Who´s been giving me cultural tips as usual... some photos of what´s on offer in downtown Buenos Aires. Teatro Colon is well-closed for a massive renovation so couldn´t even go on the guided tour which otherwise are daily events. And I´m sure my Spanish would not have coped with a serious theatre production anyway. Went to Eva, The Musical last night. Ha, she won´t approve of that one bit, but I couldn´t face Othello sung in Spanish or Andrew Lloyd Weber in any language really.

Colonia, Uruguay

I've taken 15 million photos and climbed a lighthouse tower and that was my flying visit over the border. Boat back leaves in an hour so have 20 minutes to play in here before I get another stamp in my passport. It's all very pretty and crumbling and ancient and Portugese looking. Lots of the blue and white tiles on the walls that you see there too. Some original leistone (?¿)paved streets which make you wonder even more than usual what induces women to wear heels for walking about the streets in. Boat trip back should be nice as the sun will be going down which will no doubt generate yet more photos. This digital stuff gets even me, who used to go away for months and take about 7 pictures, take more pictures. The camera had a tiny hiccup of a problem during the last days but it seems to have miraculously 'healed' itself. The shutter on one side wouldn{t open properly and I had to give it a push with my finger every time but now it seems to have shaken whatever dust it was that was causing the problem out of place and is workng perfectly again. I suspect it was the horsey stuff that did for it. Ok, off to cross the muddy brownish waters of the estuary again.
(next day in Bs/As - here a few photos, rest I´ll sort out from home)