Buenos Aires
19.11.2005
Came back from down South for Rach´s dentist appointments. Went to him immediately to be told that she will need root canal and extraction of both teeth, that will be 3000 quid please - oh my god !!!!!!
Lots of emails to the insurance company followed and it looks like they will pay, but until I see the cash I am bracing myself for the worst. At least Rach will not be in pain anymore and be able to smile nicely again.
Have to say that BA is easily the best place I have visited and I love the place. The fact that the economy is still down means everything is exceeding cheap so we ate and drank loads. Luckily we met up with some friends as soon as we got back here so accompanied each other to lots of different districts.
Saw a football match (too scared to go alone so we got a tourist agency to purchess good seats for us in the season ticket holders area and drive us to and from the match). Ate parilla (which is basically loads and loads of different bits of a cow cooked and then put on a burner infront of you). If you feel brave you can play "guess the gland" with all the offal they also wack down with it, but Rach and I stuck to the big bits of meat you could guess came from which bits of the cow. We saw Tango in the street, went to the "rough part of town" (did it properly and walked there, although there were certain bits of it you don´t go at night and got the bus back) Went shopping, took busses not taxis everywhere, hung out in the park on a sunny day and got drunk on wine with friends. The list goes on, we had an amazing week, I would easily come back here to live and work (I also had a weeks worth of private Spanish lessons to get my chatting up to scratch).
However, although the town was good the dentist wasn´t. Rach went in for her first root canal to be told that she had an infection and couldn´t complete the work until antibiotics took it down 2 - 3 weeks later! Obviously this was a bit of a problem for our travelling, couldn´t stay they for a month, so we got the antibiotics and set of for Iguazu falls and Brasil
