Rosario

A cute and very clean city where we spent 5nights. We stayed with a couple of locals who we became great friends with. We arrived in the evening so all just chilled out with a big box of take-away empanadas, very typical argentinian food which I can best describe as a type of pasty, and played an obsessive amount of Jenga. Before they showed us around the city the next day, we cooked them up a traditional english breakfast, they were shocked how much food there was. Later we took a walk to the riverside then on to the flag monument where you could get a lift up to the top of the building to get a view of the entire city. It was really beautiful with lots of statues and an everlasting flame. That night was just a lazy pizza night.

The city's great for shopping so we began the day browsing those and finished up with a huge a asado on the rooftop at the house of our friend's mum. She said that they tend to have big family asado around once or twice a week, so it's obviously a big part of life in Argentina. My favourite day however was when me and Leggra went to have lunch on the riverside and then to Parque Independencia where there was a big lake with cute little bridges and collums. We hired a pedalo on the lake and saw a baby turtle swimming around and then a giant turtle diving down. We made everyone lasagna for dinner before heading out to see Alice in Wonderland in 3D -LOVED IT!

Our most cultural day was when we went for a coffee by the river frount, outside the modern art museam then wandered on inside for an hour or so. We had a picnic in the park, strolled through the city and around a market. On the Friday night we went out to a typical argentinian bar, with a gypsy-folk band who were incredible and got everyone crazy dancing.