First impressions of Buenos Aires....!!
ssoooo - after I've been here for a week now I should really write some stuff about Buenos Aires....!!I had heard soooooo many great things about this city before I came here that maybe I had set my expectations a bit too high... hhmm....
with Lima it was exactly the other way round... !!
first of all - I don't really feel like I am in South America here.... it feels more like a mix of Barcelona, New Jersey, maybe a bit of Paris too... and yes - they do have RED LONDON mailboxes and public telephones here.... :) funny...
and true - it is a nice city and has a lot of beautiful places, things to see and things to do.... I've already been to many of the major touristy places and attractions here - San Telmo Antiques fair, Puerto Madero, Plaza de Mayo with Evita's balcony, Avenida 9 de Julio, el Obelisco, Plaza Constitucion, La Boca, Avenida FLORIDA, Recoleta y Palermo, Plaza Francia, Plaza Alemania, Plaza San Martin, Parque 3 de Febrero (VERY, VERY nice park.... like Central Park or Hyde Park, but with palmtrees), el Hipodromo, etc. etc.
and since last WED I'm staying in an apartment next to Plaza y Palacio del Congreso.... pretty nice there too.... and close to many places that I need to go to regularly, i.e. my office here, La SUDACA (one of the good salsa places here), Avenida 9 Julio, 2 SUBTE stations (that's the Subway network here - SUBTE for Subterraneo).
The first few nights I stayed with some local couch-surfers and their friends and met some really nice people.... Thanks muchas to Kristin, Martin, Gaby and Ezequiel for making my first weekend in Buenos Aires so much fun...!!
and now I'm living with an Argentine girl called Maria Eugenia.... she seems very nice nice too, but neither one of us is at home very much so we haven't spent that much time together yet....
and yes - I found some places to dance salsa here too (of course) and met some nice dancers here as well... ;) the salsa scene here is actually a lot more developed and better than in Peru...
the people in my office here are really nice and funny too and it's fun working and spending time with them.....even though Ney just left us to return back to Rio... :(
but still - at the moment I still miss all my friends in Lima a lot.... !! I also miss my life there, living so close to the beach, the nice relaxed atmosphere in Miraflores and then little things, like the Vivanda supermarket for example and my favorite Lucuma Yogurt Bebible....
oh well.... I'm sure I'll settle into my life here in Buenos Aires as well and I'll be fine here in a few days / weeks, but this city is big and busy.... loads of traffic.... loads of people rushing around.... and that's all a bit tiring for me at the moment.....even after all the time that I've spent in huge cities like London and New York.... hhmmm, a ver....
I think it's also mainly that people here are not as friendly, open, amable y ayudable as in Lima.... pero, I'm doing okay.... and will try to write again soon and put some pics on here too...
besos from Argentina... :)
posted by Astrid @ 6:25 PM
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