Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sunday started with a lie in, still have a bit of the head cold I have had for the past few days and managed a good 10hours sleep. Wake up in my shiney and bright studio, strange not to see Justin already awake and tapping on the iPad waiting for me to wake up. It is cloudy today for a change, not cold but a little gloomy. Facebook is covered with stories of people enjoying the sun in England, so at least i know where it is! It is Mother’s Day today, so I video chat with the family. They all seem on fine form, with mum enjoying the Malbec wine I gave her with her roast. Today’s plan is to do nothing but I figure whilst I am here for a month, I should try and get out to see different parts of the city. I walk down to Plaza Italia and along the side of the zoo (another day perhaps) down to the major road Avenida del Libertador to Parque de 3 Febrero. This park it quite traditionally laid out and would have been the aristocracy’s old stomping ground. On Sundays they close the road around it to vehicles and so it is a great place to people watch. Joggers, rollerblading, cyclists and just people walking, it seems to be quite the weekend social activity. There is a rose garden at the heart of it called Rosedal, I wasn’t sure on time of year versus blooms but it was lovely. Bigger than I thought and lots of varieties planted in sections to create blocks of colour, and great scent. My landlord called me about dropping off kitchen stuff so I wandered back to meet him, I now have a chopping board, 2 knives, bowl and stirring utensils. I went back out in search of a notebook for school tomorrow and found a massive Carrefour hypermarket. Lost about an hour in there and the shopping mall just browsing differences to U.K. ranges, particularly the section of dulce de leche, bought a frying pan to to complete my kitchen. 25degrees & cloudy, sun shone from 3pm