Well here I am in Buenos Aires having had an easy sleep filled flight from New Zealand, with no films!! 11.5 hours without film is boring to say the least but lucky for me my book is hotting up. Spanish music and sunlight floods this quaint hostel where breakfast is free and wonderfully continental! So many nationalities, the conversation round the breakfast table was in German, Spanish and English!

New Zealand seems so long ago already, but it was a beautiful blast conducted briskly by our host, Paula. The beaches she toured us around on the West were black sand so soft I was happy to have my shoes filled with it as it flowed around my toes! The other side of the beach where the sand was half dry half wet crunched lightly underfoot too - a new ensation and how id expect it to feel walking on chocolate icing that has slightly set! I swam in the sea even though, in their autumn, it was pretty chilly! The surfers in their full wetsuits gave me some funny looks!Still warmer than the English sea though.
I think it took about 2 weeks to adjust to the heat in Singapore then Bangkok, and not feel tired from doing the smallest thing. To suddenly plunge into an atmosphere of 20 degrees felt very cold! I was wrapped up in 2 pairs of legging, my hoodie and as many of tops as I could fit on underneath that! Bad move not bringing any trousers out, but it gives me an excuse to buy some new jeans hehe. The other side of the coast near Aukland had yellow sand and had some great stacks and stumps I could appreciate from good old geography textbooks! We also went to Palm Beach for a very enjoyable boozy (filled with wine tasting) lunch with Paula´s friend Leslie, on Wanheke Island which had some stunning views of the sea and the white motor boats that compltely filled the harbour. Wine Tasting was also on the list of things to do, and now I know a little more about the type of white wine I most enjoy! The vineyards were beautiful and rolled away into the valleys and up the other sides.
Lounging around by the pool back at her house was wonderfully relaxing too. Also spent an evening in their "spa" - outdoor Jacuzzi to you and me. The house was spacious, light and so neat and tidy I didn´t feel I could sprawl out quite how I might have otherwise. The bed I slept in was a dream though compared to all the hard hostel fouton type things I´ve had over the last 3 weeks, and it was luxurious to have a duvet.
The architechture was very strange. All the houses were clapboard as opposed to stone or brick and looked like they had been put up temporarily until their real house was finished being built. Or they returned home having had a nice summer holiday! Apparently most people have 2 houses though - a "bach" nearer the beach where families will spend their holiday periods. The landscape was green with some trees very similar to England but with more tropical looking plams here and there and brown grass as theyd had hardl any rain.
Also visited a house sunk into the hill with a grass roof which we ate some BREAD on which I am missing so much! A little like the tellytubbies place, it was amazing, the sunset occured right infront of us and a possum appeared (illegal pet they are keeping as the son shot its mother!) and we ate dinner outside by candlight with kiwis dangling overhead. Another world truly. Really enjoyed being thrown into their lifestyle. Great cooking too. Bacon and eggs for brekkie and generally strong flavours and sauces with lots of roast chicken.
I am getting off to the cemetary where Evita was buried now! Will keep in touch. Much love to all!! XXXXXXX