During our travels in New Zealand we had hoped to learn a bit of Castillano (Latin American spanish) in order to prepare ourselves for South American travel. With help from our children's spanish book, and our phrasebooks we had a basic grasp by the time we boarded the plane. Over the course of our 9 days in Buenos Aires however our vocabulary and pronunciation progressed significantly. We were ordering beers and bakery goods with ease and chanting with the football fans, however the difficulty came when somebody spoke back to us. Spanish is an enjoyable language to speak and to listen to, but the speed of speach here is dazzling and with dialects and regional accents deviating from our textbook style we struggled to hold a converstaion. We're still having fun with it though and this key difference from our Oceanic adventures made the travel here new and exciting once again.
It had been quite an excursion to get to this city of 'good air' as its name implies. We had left Auckland at 8pm on the 15th of February, an at times turbulant flight had brought us to South America in 12 hours. We touched down at 5pm local time, calanders still on the 15th of February, three hours before we left Auckland. Read More>>>
