First stop: Argentina

Greetings, friends and strangers!! 

So as you may not wonder, I arrived safely in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's summer in South America (for more information about seasons in the world, check Wikipedia), which means it's about 25°C and sunny. (In your face, Berlin friends! Still freezing your asses off?)

After a long and not that comfortable 13 hour flight (where they didn't distribute free headsets for the in-flight films, me being too cheap to buy some and too stupid to have taken some from home, hence the discomfort), the plane landed in BA. Nothing much interesting to say, I have a nice new visa on my passport, my bag didn't get lost, the customs didn't see the cocaine I had hidden in my bra (Note to the Argentinian customs agent reading this: this is not true), so it's all good.

First sips of BA, not necessarily in this order:

Nice, laid-back, retro atmosphere. Hard to say why or how. You can feel you're not in cold, frigid Europe anymore.

No, wait, that's not my point.

 

THIS is what I mean by 'retro'

  

 

Relic of the time when McDonalds was just the name of a poor scottish farmer

 

Press the buttons and run fast!

Picture taken from the Starbucks opposite

 
Numerous hot guys everywhere. (YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!) Well, a huge bunch of people are still ugly, don't get me wrong (probably due to immigration waves from Bolivia). 
(no pictures, sorry, but this is not a porn site)

 

Traffic, traffic, traffic all the time. 

BA is supposed to make efforts to reduce the car use and promote public transportation, but it's not enough. It's noisy everywhere. Cycling is fun (we went on an hour ride last weekend), but not recommended during weekdays.... There are some cycling lanes, but not enough, and not all are separated from the cars.

At least they have trees

Weird architecture mix. Some beautiful Parisian style buildings next to modern ugliness. Why? Sad to think that the city was entirely like this before. Everything was better before, anyway. 

Old school

Old school 2

This building is named 'WTF?'

 

On the left: the embassy of the GDR

 Food here is great! Argentinian ice cream is waaay worth the weight you'll put on. Almost as good as the Berthillon one. Definitely the second best I ever ate. People who think Italian ice cream is the best are either Italian or tasteless (which is more or less the same).

The same for Argentinan wine: I only tasted red until now (and believe me when I say I will personally conduct a field study on this topic), and it's damn good.

They have small 'pies' / 'quiches' called Empanadas filled with delicious things, such as cheese or vegetables (most likely meat actually, but meat is for losers). Forget your diet, Argentinian food is supposed to be the most calorific in the world (just looked online for confirmation and can't find anything about it, so it might be a fake; but judging from my waistline after one week here, I would believe it)

Appealing fat

So, people, that's it for now. Nothing crappy happened yet, but it just started, so don't worry, there will be enough weird stories coming up! 

Thanks for reading!