Feliz Navidad from Buenos Aires!

We narrowly missed two military coups (Thailand and Fiji) and we successfully avoided riots in Santiago but nothing could have prepared us for the reception we got at Buenos Aires ... coming through immigration at the same time as Carol Thatcher you can imagine the anti-British atmosphere!!!

We've not got much to say about Buenos Aires yet, makes a change we know, as we've spent all our time looking for somewhere to call home for the next 2 or 3 months.

It's been a great experience though as it's enabled us to see a lot of the city tourists don't normally see - and what a great city it is. Sophisticated, elegant and more European than most of Europe, BA brims with bustling streets, grand buildings and passionate porteno. Within minutes of meeting people they are your best friends, we've been invited to estate agents' for Christmas dinner, given telephone numbers by little old women in shops in case we need any help while we're here, and kissed/hugged repeatedly!

After 4 days of pounding the streets we found our apartment - a lovely one bedroomed place just off BA's equivalent of Oxford Street (how did Ali pull that one off?!) with a balcony to watch the world go by - and moved in the next morning. Just in time to settle in and find a turkey for Christmas dinner - yeah!!!

So, a very happy Christmas from Buenos Aires - we hope you all have a fantastic time and that Santa has been extra generous this year!

PS - we start language school on Boxing Day so perhaps the next update will be in Spanish ...