Back to reality


We're heading back to BsAs today. We spent the morning walking on the beach. All the little towns down here kind of join up so you never really leave the houses and streets. It's cool, apart from the main roads all the streets are gravel (or at least beach sand) and it's VERY quiet. All the houses have for rent signs, but only or Dec - Mar. I guess people must live in them the rest of the year and make their money when the whole of BsAs descends on the little town. If I were thinking about retiring, wanted to live in Argentina and spoke better Spanish, I could do worse than moving here.

Sadly the weather wasn't great today so we couldn't really lie around on the beach, but that's okay. We'll have plenty of opportunity to do that in Rio.

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