Ok, so traveling around the city in itself is an experience. The subway trains have their windows open for air to pass through and it is very easy to get motion sickness in the buses above ground. They never come to a complete stop when you have to get on and you are still hanging off the front if there are a lot of people getting on when they start up again! Luckily if you are traveling to Buenos Aires you can buy the Guia T that tells you how to get to anywhere inthe city you want to go by train or bus with every street and number elaborated. It is like my bible here!
Last night I took the subte A from El Plaza de Mayo and I sware it was as if I stepped backinto the 1920s. The train conductor whisteld for everyone to board. Everything was made of wood, the benchs, the doors, the exterior of the windows that rattles as it went along and there were even mirrors throughout. The pols had a certain details that were so beatiful especially the part that connected them to the ceiling. I tried to take pictures but it was hard to do without anyone noticing. It was seriously like a train you would find going around disneyland, a repulica of the old ones but still in use. It was so beautiful and amazing that it is still being used? Why did we get rid of the old and replace it with "new and modern" but in no way replicates the beaty of the craft from before? That I will never understand... My ride in the subte last night was quite memorable and to that placeslike that still exist, unbelievable.
On my way back by bus, it finally happened... it was only a matter of time in a country without stop signs and very little traffic lights that an accident would occur. We were going along in the bus and there came the taxi from the side street slowing down but not stopping totally and rammed right into our bus. Luckily no one was hurt nor was the taxi driver and a policeman happened to be at the corner. They exchanged info, nothing really happened to the bus or us as it is huge and within 10 minutes we were on our way...as if nothing had happened. Interesting. That was around 1 in themorning...when I got off thebus everything was bustling as usual at that hour of the night on a saturday, people eating and moving about the city- who sleeps on a saturday ngiht? The dance clubs were just getting started and the portenos were out and about!
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