Ola gringo's!

As you can see, the title of the blog has changed! Carlos (My good friend Karel from home) has joined his forces to my side and from now on we will conquer South America together! (Welcome new followers and fans of our travels!)

So my travels continued on the 6th of January when I left Bogotá for Buenos Aires(BA). I immediately loved Argentina when I tried to buy an orange juice in the McDo with 100 Pesos and they did not have any change, so they gave it for free! Thank you Ronald!

Afterwards I entered the MEGApolis of BA to find Carlos in a student residence where he was couchsurfing(CS). The first days in BA he showed me a little bit of the city, but as this will be my final destination, I will visit it properly next time. Our last night we left the residence and went CS in the appartment on the 21st floor of a socially isolated 57 year old creep. After a dinner with painful conversations where he accused all the British and Germans of being alcoholics and hating the rest of the world for any other possible reason, (I wonder why he was socially isolated..) we enjoyed his view over BA.

The next day we took a boat over the Mar del Plata which lays between BA and Montevideo. Sadly it was a sunday when we arrivd and there were as many people in Montevideo as in the Sahara.. To cheer ourselves up we started cooking our legendary pasta bolognese and immediately people approached us and were curious about the food! The city itself was nice, but Uruguay is twice as expensive as the previous countries I have been to, so we arranged a last minute CS for the next two days! This time is wasa 29 year old very friendly guy who cooked us a welcome-ravioli meal! The next day two other spanish CS'ers arrived at his place and with some friends of him we had a roof-top assado (BBQ) followed by a fierce poker game where Belgium prevailed!

After Montevideo we migrated to the east coast of Uruguay and started in the local Knokke-le-Zoute aka Monaco. We were happy to see Ferrari's and other overpriced cars again! The only better thing they have there are the thousands of Argentinian girls that are on holiday! The downside is that due to the presence of these rich fantsy-pantsy people, lodging prices are through the roof! We decided to do what the other Mochillero's (backpackers)do here: Drop your bag in the bustherminal, party all night long and take the first bus! This is not too hard because Argentinians only go to Boliche's (disco's) around 2-3am until sunrise.. It was a real challange to stay awake!

The next day the bus brought us to la Paloma where we climbed the lighthouse and caught up some sleep under the palmtrees before to take another bus to our next destination: Punte del Diablo! This sleeping surferstown lives on Bob Marley beats and never sleeps, and neither did we due to the ever presence of the Argentinians! I don't know how they manage it, but our daily life completely changed! Early breakfast followed by some beachtime, lunch, more beachtime (soccer,volley,surfing,..), first small dinner around 7pm, grocery shopping around 10pm and then cooking the big meal for the final dinner around midnight. Again the first night we made our pasta-bolognese famous in the hostel and everyone wanted to be our friend! Thesecond best thing Gaetanoprepared was, believe it or not: stuffed fish on the grill! Carlos can prove it (and he's a tough customer!) but he admitted itwas the best fish he ever ate and so did the four other people at our table! (As youwillsee inmy pictures, our cooking skills are well appreciated!)After that you have a social moment (yes, there is alcohol involved and no, we are not drunks). The night at the hostel ends around 4am, when everyone goes partying in a boliche until they have no energy left. For us that was around 6am, when we walked to the beach to see the sun come up. We repeated that for three days and then we had to leave the place, because we were about to collapse. Wedecided to migrate further up north to Brazil where our travels ar currently continuing..

Yesterday we walked about 12km from emigration officeto immigration office at the border, and took a bus that brought us to a city we did not had to be. So around midnight we took another bus to the city where we currently reside: Rio Grande. (For the newcomers here: there is a tab above on the page where you can follow our tracks and see my previous travel destinations)

Now we are waiting for our next CS hosts and in a day or two we will move to Florianopolis! This place is known for its 42 beaches and nothing more! So we might do some hiking from beach to beach to keep it interesting!

Beijos do Brasil,

C.& G. on the road!

PS: Carlos asked me to tell you he is not responsible for anything that has been written here.