We arrived in Buenos Aires on Monday and have enjoyed a couple of days acclimatising, looking around the city and getting into the swing of things in Argentina. The city is an amazingly colourful and vibrant place with some really slick neighbourhoods and some equally downtrodden areas. Our hotel is fantastic, designed by Philippe Starck, 5 star with all the bells and whistles. It's in the Porto Modero area which has been extensively redeveloped and looks very much like the smart end of Liverpool.
Things got off to a bit of an inauspicious start when we went to pick "The Mighty One" up from the docks, all the cars were lined up in a shed and ours was the only one which wouldn't start. We managed to blag a tow 10 miles back to the hotel from the organiser Bart Rietbergen, which didn't go down well, especially as our tow rope turned out to be about 4 feet long! Anyway, Marvo the mechanic, aka me, ably assisted by Pedro, no 2 mechanic, fixed it.
A great night out was had last night sampling the best of Argentinian beef steak which the waiter insisted on cutting with a spoon to show how tender it was. We finished off the evening with the compulsory Tango show in a lovely old French style society cafe.
Tonight we headed off to the Dutch Embassy for a rally briefing and then a cocktail party, where we spent most of the evening talking to some spooks from the American Embassy.
The rally starts early tomorrow morning from a park near the hotel where Juan Manuel Fangio's
statue is, just in case you don't know, he was a five time world champion racing driver and
an icon here in Argentina.
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