The trip has started...

The journey finally started last Thursday (8th Feb) when I left Belfast and drove down to Dublin. I stayed at Mark's house and he and Patrick kindly drove me to the aiport at 4am. Early start and at -4 degrees a very cold one! The first leg was 2.5 hours to Madrid and then a few hours waiting for the connection to Buenos Aires. I used the time to phone Nuria in Barcelona and buy some supplies for the trip. Approximately 12 hours later I arrived in Buenos Aires where the local time was 21h and the outside temperature was 25. This was a shock to the system! As I was fairly tired by this stage I decided to get a taxi to the Hostel-Inn in San Telmo (the district famous for Tango), rather than try to figure out the public transport system.