OD in BA.

So over a week later and we're still in Buenos Aires and still loving it so much. We have extended the leaving day from Friday to Sunday and now to Monday. There's so much to see and people to pack in final nights with so we just keep pushing the date back! We will be extremely sad to leave here... good job that we're returning in a couple of weeks for a final Argentinian fairwell.

What makes Buenos Aires so great?

We've been really lucky out here and met some really great people. Top on the list and people that we need to say a massive thank you to are our friends from BA that we met over a game of UNO in Tulum, Mexico.

They have been able to introduce us to make highlights of the city that we definitely would have missed without them.

Most significantly the ice cream...

Volta has been voted favourite of four places that we have been instructed to try in BA.The flavours that you can get are incredible... dulce de leche with bits of brownie, white chocolate, cookies and cream to name only a few. The choice is fantastic and you can get any topping you like on the top too, meringue, brownie, smarties, EVERYTHING. The need to get these places in England, how we can be a seaside nation without a Volta I don't know. Do you think its possible to post icecream home?

Secondly, the steak in BA. Its famed for it and now I can definitely see why. When we first arrived I couldn't really work out how a steak could be so much better from one place to the next, but i can safely say that it can. The steaks here are amazing, and a must do.

Hannah and I went to La Cabrera in Palermo which is famed for being the best steak in Argentina and it was pretty damn good I have to say. The best thing about it is all the sauces and stuff that you get to go with it. And of course Argentinian red wine is incredible. La Vuelta goes down as the best bottle I have ever drunk. Apparently people queue for about an hour to get into this place in the evening so I would recommend going at lunch time. They also have a set lunch menu which I think probably means that you get a bit more for your money, even though the portions are RIDICULOUS: you order 1 steak, you get two, a million sauces and a huge salad. That combined with the empanadas to start and flan for pudding means that you leave feeling pretty sick!

There is a bit of a theme to our Argentinian meet ups... FOOD... we've also sampled Alfajores, more steak, China Town, homemade apple crumbly biscuit thingys (thanks Lucas!), flan, dulce de batatas (described as like jam, but not jam, cheese, but not cheese thats like butter, but not butter, that is actually sweet potato - sometimes the language barrier has been tres amusant, but tbf having tried it I don't know how on earth I would describe it!), huge quantities of pudding (thanks Agustina's mum!). We have also managed to pass on some desert know how. Lucas has since made a lovely Bread and Butter pudding... we're on the hunt for Argentinian custard at the moment... hopefully it exists somewhere!

Apple crumbly things, by Lucas 'The best'

Dulce de Batatas

Flan con dulce de leche

Alfajores

Chocolate amazingness by Agustinas mum

Bread and Butter Pudding... Lucas learns English cooking!

Everything is also, importantly, con dulce de leche.

All in all to quote Guido, "you haven't had a good time on vacation unless you come back fatter" in the philosophy that we have been embracing.