Tigre, Goodbye BA & random photos

Kara Says:

Right. Apologies for the quality of this entry - I started with the bottom half, then decided to add these extra photos and now i'm out of time 'cause we off to our last milonga (can you hear Karl's anguished screams in the background) before we leave BA.

So. Photos up here - Karl when his lips exploded. I think they did that just to worry me and so i'd figure out where our closest hospital is. Course now we're all going to die from dengue fever anyway it doesn't matter so much and the doctors are on a 48 hour strike so gong to hospital wouldn't be much good. He recovered - see below for proof he is still alive.

Other photos here of a trip to Tigre yesterday - a little town/suburb of BA up a river. Very pleasant and quiet (good antidote to Karl's city-outtedness, see below), transport by boats, it's on the delta of the parana river so there's houses on the river and people get around in tinnies which they drive just as insanely as they drive cars on dry land.

There's a photo of me to prove to my mother i'm still alive. Karl pondering life. Gotta go now - tango awaits!





Kara says:

Hola. Only one day left before we hit the road. Karl can't wait, he's all citied-out and is longing for peace and quiet and almost ran away with the Greenpeace boat in the dock today.

Just going to put up a few photos of this and that. First up I see is Karl hitting the town - a man can never have too many beers ya know - at a microbrewery that seems (conveniently) to have branches wherever we go. I know, us in a microbrewery, you'd never think it. And Nigel knows the staff so well at his local (he literally has a glass with his name on it) that Karl got to pull pints and not just drink them.















This is just a bus/motorhome thingy i came across in the city - hope mine looks like that when i retire.

And the volvo - it was definately a volvo at some point - is our landlord's car. It actually looks quite good in this photo 'cause you can't see the right hand wing-mirror dangling helplessly from the door or the tow rope holding on the rear bumper (still, handy way to store a tow-rope). But it still moves!



And then there's that artistic photo taken on a walk the other day in the Costanera Sur. It's a big area, hundreds on hectares or something like that?, on the river side of the dock area. Originally it was a temporary dumping site for landfill - dumped into the river but built up to a huge area of landfill. By the time anyone got around to thinking about removing it nature had taken over with plants and trees and apparently lots of bird species (full of bird watchers) so the the goverment - never ones to let a free park go to waste - kept it. It's really very nice, right by the city but feels very rural and quiet. It's actually possible to be completely alone there! It was quite the shock after 3 months in BA. But then closing time came and half of BA walked out the same path with us.

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  1. CloudApril 26, 2009 at 4:14 AM

    Wow - I thought the picture of Karlito's lips was done with a fisheye lens at first. That is extreme puffiness of the face. Glad to hear that he's back to normal now.

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