Bife de chorizo = quite a large steak.

So, BA pulled its socks up. Have had an amazing couple of days here thus far. Met 2 v.nice Aussie girls, Ashley and Hannah, who were sharing my room. They've since had to move but out little team has grown to include another Aussie, Alice, and two Irish girls, Clara and Eimear whose dinky little laptop am on at the moment.

Milhouse is living up to its infamous reputation, and everything is considerably cheaper than Brazil thank gawd. First night was Pacha night to celebrate Milhouse's 10th bday. We went round the corner to a bar to pregame (distressed barman took 45 mins to prepare 3 cocktails. Sigh.) and then hopped in a taxi dangerously close to the 1.30am free entry deadline. Got to Pacha and promptly headed straight in much to our joy. Got chatting to three boys, Chris, Garrrry and, er, Tall Boy. Dancing ensued til 4 am and was really rather fun despite lack of sambuca (forced to quaff tequila instead, urrrrgh) and it playing music with no words all night. Apparently this is what happens in places like Pacha apparently.

Yesterday we wandered to the Antique market in San Telmo but spent way more time lingering over the many stalls on the way there - much restraint demonstrated by yours truly, but not entirely. Bought cool little Don Quixote print thing by local artist who tried to explain how he made it (to my joy I was the Spanish translator for the day, Hannah and Ashley speaking no Spanish at all - managed among other things to buy sweet popcorn and strawberries, and tell people we weren't students, or indeed sisters). Long walk back, tired legs. Hit the bar in the evening (beverage of choice: Iguana Skin) with a band jamming until 2am. Idea was other people joined in but we refrained except for one drunk guy who peformed an eye wateringly embarassing dance which his mates filmed. Needless to say he hasn't showed his face thus far today.

Today we went to Boca - my experience of nasty scamming BA'rians balanced by super helpful types showing us where to go. We wandered slightly off beaten track in Boca and a boy shouted out to us to go back, and then another guy pulled up his car just to tell us we should be really careful and go back to the tourist area because we were wandering into a dodgy part. Boca was really pretty, stunning houses etc, plus we took an awesome pic of the 6 of us lined up in height order (Alice is a leggy amazon so we look hilarious together). Got a LOT of attention walking there and back including some rounds of applause. Fairly sure we can attribute these to Alice's legs.

We've smuggled in some contraband vodka- 17 PESOS for a giant bottle = happy me, so will go to rejoin the others now.

Have put some pics up on f'book - siblings if you could show M&D that would be fab.