Dont believe what they tell you about the beef in Argentina...........it is ten times better.

The customs computer obviously sprung into life yesterday  & they were keen (make that insistent) to exchange my hand written one for the printed version. Obviously i had to pay the 2 way cab fare!
I will only know if it is all ok when i try to get across the border in to Chile.

I dropped my laundry in to be done! The romance of travel eh?
Just about every street has a little laundry to go with the fruiterers, pharmacy, hardware stores, barbers etc. There are still shops that do photocoping - I can only assume people dont have the money, space or inclination to have Whites goods, that we take for granted, at home. It is charming, you dont see many empty units and they all wash their bit of pavement everymorning (probably t do with the amount of Dog Poo! That reminds me, their pavements leave a bit to be desired -holes & cracks everywhere plus unstable tiles. If you step on one of these (and there are many) the water underneath squirts up your leg. People pay good money to go to Hever Castle for their water maze.


There was a public display of outrage when the price of Buses and Metro went up from Ps1.9 (30p) to Ps 2.5.(40p).The 25%-30% inflation is killing them as their salaries certainly aren't keeping pace.

I thought i had seen a lot of dog walkers over the last few days - but this was a different league! In this little area of the park I counted over 100 dogs - probably about 8 per person walking them. If Landscape Architecture doesn't work out for Rosie i am sure she would enjoy this.

With my new found interest in Car Parks, I took a closer look at this one. The operator "Neuquin" (closest i can explain the name he gave me) was from Paraguay and he was very proud of his machine and took me for a ride up to the 6th floor. This places holds 250 cars (see i am learning something in class). Nice to see someone happy in their work. This is more than can be said for the Peruvian illegal immigrants protesting down town whilst chained together. Basically they are losing their ability to work after years of being here. They didn't look very happy.

Dinner in a local Parradilla (means BBQ i think) was 2 enormous sirloin steaks, each about 2 inches thick, cooked perfectly in the restaurant on an enourmous flame grill - Ps55 (about £8) - a coffee costs £2 (a nice one admittedly). How does that work?

Big day today at Spanish - we have a test to see if we get held back or go up a class - i am fed up with trying to conjugate bloody Spanish verbs whether they are regular or irregular. If only I had Wilks here to help me.