We´re Here!

So we have finally arrived, and it seems slightly surreal to think that we have got the next 8 weeks off work.  Our first day in Buenos Aries was great.  We treated ourselves to a rather sumptuous brunch in a lovely corner cafe in Palermo and then hired bikes, cycled round the park and off to a market.  When the cycle paths stopped the 4 lane highways were slightly scary, but we survived unscathed.

We spent the evening in Palermo Viejo, a district described in Lonely Planet as "trendsetting".  Luckily I think we were there early enough for our scruffy look to not matter too much and we enjoyed a few beers sitting in the square.  Chris considered giving each day a "bickering rating".  I suspect doing that would only lead to a larger degree of bickering and a downard spiral of ever increasing scores.  After shunning Lonely Planet´s recommended restaurant we found a great local cafe where we had a very tasty and bargainous dinner before warndering back to our hotel in a by this time rather jet-lagged daze.