New Year 2008 - Bring on Buenos Aires

It was a close call but i made it in time to Buenos Aires for New Year. I suffered yet some more delays in Point A Pitre, missing my connection in Cayenne (does this sound familiar?) and having to stay in Cayenne for one night. I actually shed a tear (frustration) when the Air Caraibes person told me that I would have to stay in Cayenne until the 31 st to get the next flight out. Luckily for me, I was not alone to deal with this "shit" (excuse my language) and I was surrounded by a highly efficient team consisting of a moaner/complainer (aka "le raleur"), a negotiator (Eric aka "le negotiateur") and a v lucky person (Serge aka "Le rescape").

"Le Negotiateur"

"Le Raleur"

"Le Rescape"

Thanks to these guys, we managed to get on an unscheduled charter flight on Saturday to Belem. Once in Belem that was not quite the end of my worries as I had missed my connecting flights to Buenos Aires. To make a long story short I travelled for 2 straight days non stop to get down to Buenos Aires. I will have to write an extensive complaint letter to Air Caraibes.

Once in BA, i relaxed. The heat was stiffling but it just added to the cool atmosphere of the city. I wandered around the Barrio of San Telmo, where street entertainers were playing music and dancing in the streets. I met up with the Danes again and Karen (who I hadn´t seen since Central America) as we were all staying in the Millhouse hostel in Central Buenos Aires. We spent most of our time walking around the city, eating steak and drinking Malbec. In that order.

New Year´s Eve was a fun affair. People here don´t seem to go out for diner on the 31st so we were a bit stuck for choice. In the end we had diner in a local restaurant round the corner of the hostel, eating steak and drinking Malbec (erhem) in the dark (due to a power cut). We then made it back to the hostel in time for midnight. Due to the intense heat (lovely sweaty photos to prove it) we stayed outside drinking Carribean rum in the street. At 2 am we moved on to an outdoor club called Konex. All good fun. Got home a 9 am the next morning.


1 st Jan 2008 : Slept all day and ate McDonalds

Not a bad way to start 2008 in my books!