Delta Parana – Tigre and my bird flu

On advice from the hotel (kudos given they earn $ from selling tours) I hired a jeep wrangler through the hotel (yeah I know CBT favourite means of travelling transport) … and took a drive to Tigre to canoe on the Delta Parana.  Lots of folk offer tours for this but do it yourself, as the tours are way too structured.  Pics here ... Delta Parana

Recoleta Cemetery

Very eerie, cemetery is huge, it is actually known as the ‘little city’ as the graves are in fact mini houses with actual rooms, placed on actual streets.  Recoleta is an extremely wealthy area, where the rich of Buenos moved to post a cholera outbreak downtown.  The cemetery is home to military men and women, politicians and persons of significance to Argentina, including Eva Peron. 

Check the pics out here Recoleta & Eva

Yee hah gaucho …. Pampa Opera

Hilarious night at Pampa Opera, now I can’t get the camera to take night pics, I did get some good videos but cannot yet work out how to upload and link ..(oh how I am ageing) until then you can get an idea of the show from the video on their home page ..  click here ... Pampa 

It is an equestrian show, combined with dance and music that tells the story of Buenos Aires . There are over 50 artists and horses, and it was seriously one of the most breath-taking shows I have ever seen, fights, horses falling over (all staged).. etc .. gobsmacking.. 

La Boca – Bombonera – Boca Jnrs – Caminito

So on my little tour of the city, we passed through La Boca and Caminito, (home of Boca Jnrs) driver said never past 5, especially alone and female…. Oooh that sounds right up my alley so 5pm, off I trotted…

so goodbye yellow brick road...

...where the dogs of society howl ! you can´t plant me in your penthouse, I´m going back to my plough.

Posting this as I sip iced tea in Buenos Aires !  Hola ...

Before I update on the ´road trip´ though, I must sign out of London .... (keeping this brief about to head to Tigre)!  The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of farewells, emotion and mmmm you guessed it champagne and cocktails and funnily enough champagne cocktails !

aside from all the bits you have to do when leaving your current life, not to mention the time still being consumed by the police stuff, the last couple of weeks have been full of debauchery ... of which I have no regrets.... read on !

CBT's London Life - Update # 10 - Where the gloss comes off a little

oh my ... what a week or so in London ... sadly yesterday morning, I was attacked as I lay in bed (7.30 broad daylight)... now before the panic ..  I am okay ...bit bruised and not the most pleasant experience to say the least .. but it has certainly shaken me and lets just say that 'my london high gloss shine' is now sadly mat ..

I also had camera, blackberry, phone etc pinched so apologies if you have been in contact and I have not responded... I will as soon as 'service is restored', that is the last I really want to talk about the matter ta ... as I am sure can be appreciated I am a bit tired of answering questions about it at the moment ... it had been a great week till that point though ...  and there were some funny moments throughout ... like me standing in the hall with about 6 policeman and this very well to do lady barging through the door wanting to look at the handrail on my stairs, because her builder said that she might like it, and asking my opinion on the rail and colour of paints I think would go with it, completely not noticing anything ...  we all just looked at eachother dumbfounded .... and burst out laughing ... now for slightly more cheery stuff ...

Bring back Mohammed !?

Gutted about the Harrods Christmas windows this year, they are pretty all bling bling (Crystal Christmas inspired by Swarovski) ....  but the joy of past windows was following the story .... Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz etc ... bring back Mohammed ... !