We left Buenos Aires this morning to noisy send off, the locals seemed happy to see us leave. The traffic was predictably bad leaving the city but once we got going the roads were fine.
As we were leaving the city we got a phone call from the hotel to say we had left our passports and money in the room safe. Oops! Luckily one of the organizers was still there and he kindly brought them on for us. Best to get all the cock ups out of the way early on.
The landscape has been very flat today, miles and miles of fields as far as the eye can see, mostly with cattle grazing. Its easy to see why Argeninian beef is so prolific as they have so many cattle and so much space.
We had been worried about the navigation side of things as it is quite complicated for two St Peters thickies, however we seem to be getting the hang of things. We did our first regularity stage and finished within 5 seconds over 26 kms which was pure luck as we forgot to set the trip at the start. I famously once said you would have to shoot me before I did regularity but it turned out to be good fun.
We were lucky enough to do a few laps of the Fangio Circuit at Balcarce this afternoon which was good. From staying in probably the best hotel in Agentina for the last few days we are now in one of the worst, Peter is busy killing insects as I type away on my iPad.
Tonight we go for dinner at the Fangio Museum just over the road, should be interesting for a load of old car buffs.
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