Woke early and decided to walk downtown (about an hour). The only people out at 7am were the cleaners and dog walkers - the Argies seem to like their dogs. This lady was one of many who collect dogs from the various apartments. Perfect job for Rosie and I am sure Kiwi would enjoy the company. To be fair there doesn't appear to be large steaming piles anywhere.
Had fun and games sorting out a local mobile. Unlike the UK there doesn't appear to be any chains of any type of store. It took me an age to find a shop that even sold phones in amongst the washing machines. that was great until i discovered it had no Sim card. Lots of broken English & even more broken Spanish it transpired I would have to get that from another shop & he thought there was one about 5 blocks away (this is in the equivalent of their Oxford street). On the way to this i found a book shop that looked a likely place for road maps (there are los of bookshops). The patron spoke good English and pointed me across the road to another book shop that did indeed have what i wanted - a few peso's later and i am the proud owner of an Argentinian & Chilian road map (you have to have both as the other side of the border on each map is greyed out). So then i got to the mobile phone shop - No she didn't have any sim cards only phones, neither did she know where i could buy one! Back to the helpful book keeper. He came up trumps with a suggestion about 5 blocks away (yes again). Yes he had sim cards & promptly put one in and fired up the Samsung - it didn't work. he tired another one and hey presto i am in business for a few more peso's. I then ask if i can set up a contract? No. How about pay as you go? Si but not at this shop, i need to go to the kiosk next door (well at least it wasn't 5 blocks away). And so i now had credit and a phone that worked. best thing was to find a cafe and a seat near an electrical socket to charge the phone whilst i read the mutli lingual instruction booklet. all went well until the multi lingual booklet wasn't - only Spanish! Another visit to another store & luckily a nice guy who spoke English rattled a few keys and finally i had a phone that i can use.
Which took me nicely to 1:00 and lunch with Eddie. He picked a nice Peruvian restaurant and ordered Pisco's - the Peruvian equivalent of a mohito but much nicer.With my maps he was able to point out the most interesting route for my trip south whcih is great. Eddie has been a star and whats more we are lined up to play golf! Good job i bought my shoes!

To round off the perfect day Robbo sent me a note, accusing me of restarting the Falklands war within 2 days of landing!