Payment Doc

Dear Client

Please find below enclosed to confirm pending electronic payment made to your account
and be credited upon confirmation.

Online invoice copy

Your epayment order has been attached using Google documents.
Please check for confirmation to be automatically credited.

View attached copy.

Kind Regards.

Confirm ibanking access

Dear Client,

We discovered some details on your profile are imcomplete
during our routine online service maintenance.

You are required to take a few minutes of your online experience to
confirm your online profile records.

Confirm profile records now

You could experience future problems with your internet banking
access by failing to comply to this feature.

Online Service

You have a new Private Message

Dear Client,

Your online access has been temporarily restricted.
We believe someone other than you with
IP address 86.29.533.80 making series of incorrect
login attempts with your access number.

Please review your recent activities to show
that you are not currently away.
You have to respond with immediate effect to keep
it from getting locked.

Please restore your access


Please SIGNON to email us as mails sent to this address wont be delivered.

...And now to bed...

So, that's that then. I am back from the Gaucho tour... back in my room.. and tomorrow morning I head out to the airport and back to England! What an amazing 30 weeks it has been. I really can't begin to summerise what an experience I have had. There have been endless highs - and honestly - no lows at all. I have enjoyed every second of it, every festival, every city, every country - and have met some of the nicest people in the world. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of it all - Trident, Pretty Green, RPM, PHD, Nicola Varley, Virtual Festivals, festival PRs, bands, artists, friends, family and more. I'll leave you with a daft picture of me today, taken just after an 80-yr old cowboy won me this 'ring' and gave me a kiss on the cheek. Every day's an adventure ;)
Katie x

Bolleadoras

After the Tango, the male dancer stepped forward holding two pieces of rope - each with a heavy weight at the end. These are called bolleadoras, and were originally used as weapons in hunting. The thick leather rope has a stone at the bottom wrapped in more leather. Nowadays, they are mainly used in dancers - where a performer swings the rope around, allowing the stone to hit the floor at timed intervals, almost like tap dancing. It's very loud - and extremely impressive.

Tango dancing

We were then treated to a brilliant Tango dance from two local performers. I took a little video for you to see their sexy moves..

Asado

An asado is a typical Argentinian barbeque feast. Ours took place in this giant hall!



And we ate some of the following:

Horse and cart ride

Just before lunch, myself and a nice French couple i met went for a short horse and cart ride (called a sulky ride).



Someone snapped a photo of us (looks very old fashioned!)

Vegetarians look away now..

Here is a sample of the insane feast that was cooked for nearly 200 people today..

Hooray!

This chap here is in charge of the gaucho ranch - and is himself a gaucho (kinda cowboy). He was very 'huggy' and later on took me for a dance, and a ride on his horse. It's love I tell ya.

Matte

This year is NOT what it looks like, honest.
I spotted this little pot sat next to the drive on our tour - and when I asked about it - found out that it wasn't actually some kind of dodgy drug stash, but 'Matte' - pronounced Matt-tay - a kind of loose leaf tea drunk here in Argentina. You stuff your pot with leaves, poor on boiling water, add sugar and use this clever hollow spoon (which has a strainer at the end) to drink it. It's like a very bitter green tea.

Gaucho ranch tour

Today I spent the whole day heading out - and going on - a Gaucho Ranch Tour in Buenos Aires. I joined a tour group and we drove about an hour out of the city where we then arrived on a Gaucho ranch/farm - where they show/breed/race horses, have a museum and host massive feasts (like a giant Argentinian barbeque). It was an amazing and busy day - and I got to ride a horse, ride in a horse carriage, speak loads of mad languages all messed up together, dance with an old man, eat yummy steak and generally have a good time. Check out the video below:

Graffitimundo Street Art Tour Video

Check out the video of the amazing street art I saw on today's Graffitimundo Tour in Buenos Aires.

Teach yourself Argentinian Spanish

Help me please..

Darn it

This print was for sale - at a really good price - and I REALLY wanted to buy it and frame it for my house back home... but it was too big for my luggage and couldn't be rolled up. Boooo.

Your trash

Your Trash Is My Treasure

Graffitimundo Street Art Tour

This afternoon I went on the amazing Graffitimundo Street Art and Graffiti tour of Buenos Aires. The three hour tour (which costs 90 Pesos) takes you around various different areas of the city, accompanied by an English-speaking guide who tells you the history of all the pieces, details about the artists and the techniques they have used to create the work. It was really brilliant, and I couldn't stop snapping all afternoon. Here is a selection of a few photos I took

(For all the photos from Graffitimundo, CLICK HERE)

La Boca round two!

I so enjoyed the colours of La Boca yesterday that I went back this morning for another look. More pics!

Buenos Aires City Tour video

Check out my little video from yesterday's tour of Buenos Aires..