They say...

.....that travel broadens the mind. And so it does. Here we are in Buenos Aires and, as we seem to do in every city we visit, we have made our visit to the dentist in search of the perfect filling for Mike´s tooth. This time it was The German Hospital that was recommended and the treatment was fine. We even had high hopes that German efficiency would find its way into the bureacracy. But no. The visit lasted two hours (a temporary filling which actually took 5 minutes plus another 5 for an x ray) and the rest of the time was spent in queues. Mike has another appointment on monday. I am planning to go shopping.

Apart from that BA is great (except the food, which is terrible for us, although no doubt very good for meat eaters. They don´t even make very good salads!) We are enjoying the school, even the struggling with Borges and Cortazar amongst other Argentinian writers and feel that as well as improving (we hope!) our grammar, it is doing what we hoped and giving us an insight into the history and culture. We now know, for example a lot about such diverse topics as the history of the military dictatorship and the subsequent trials on the one hand and the way in which the bands of people who sort the rubbish before it is collected every night came into existence (self organised at first to make some money when the economy collapsed in 2001 and now working under official licences from the city). Inevitably this takes up a lot of our time but we have managed other things including the opera last night at the Teatro Avenida (the Colon is still closed and the centre of a political argument). Tomorrow we have a day off school (the commemoration of the Malvinas/Falklands) and then Friday is our last day before we start exploring ourselves...more soon