BRITISH COUPLE IN BUENOS AIRES - Things we LOVE & HATE about ARGENTINA'S CAPITAL CITY!

[Music] we're craig and kirsty a full-time travel couple sharing our adventures here on youtube we upload new travel content every week from different parts of the world so please subscribe and welcome to the adventure of tide not travellers [Music] hey everyone welcome to another video where we're going to show you around buenos aires uh this is going to be a video of us talking about the things we absolutely loved while we've been here in buenos aires and things that we have hated uh i know that sounds like a strong word but there's a couple of things we have loved our time here though it has been the best uh from now on i'm gonna refer to buenos aires as ba because i have massive issues pronouncing the name of the city in case you haven't noticed um but yeah let's get started first of all we have been in ba for almost three weeks we left to go up to iguazu and came back again and that video is going to come out next week but we have in total spent about three weeks in ba things we have absolutely loved whilst we have been in the city first of all the one thing we noticed right from the very start was the people like the people are so friendly here and most people speak really good english and even if the english is not really there we have still had like the best time communicating it's been really fun and people are so friendly and so willing to help right from the start the very first day we arrived we had lovely people in restaurants we had really helpful people in our first accommodation we've stayed in three different accommodations around the city we stayed in balvanera for the first uh stint and then we stayed in palermo and then palomo soho and everyone in all the accommodations has been absolutely lovely taxi drivers people in restaurants shops supermarkets super helpful but yeah the people are so friendly and they want to help you they seem like they really want to help you to achieve whatever it is you want to achieve so we are really thankful to people of argentina for making us feel really welcome they're really lovely welcoming people so yeah thank you for that and the second thing these are in no particular order but the second thing i want to mention is how incredible the food is here in ba oh it's amazing i'm vegetarian as you may already know craig's not vegetarian so for us we're always trying to find places that are going to suit both of our tastes and i expected when i came to argentina because i listened to what everybody else thought and i thought it too that it was just going to be full of steak everywhere and obviously you can get fantastic steak places around and we've been to a few obviously not for me but for craig and when you do go to those places as a vegetarian obviously you're not going to be so well catered for so there have been times where i've ended up just with a plate of carbs but that's because i've gone to those places because i'm going there for craig but also here in ba there are plenty of restaurants that cater to both vegetarians and meat eaters all under one roof and that is like exactly what we look for wherever we go um yeah i feel really lucky i was expecting to be living on chips and salad uh traveling around uh in ba but nope it's been a delight i've been having salads i've been having um lots of halloumi they have out here um yeah they do things with eggs and cheese i'm vegetarian not vegan so that helps there are so many vegan restaurants and vegan cafes to choose from as well so yeah you're absolutely spoiled for choice so yeah and the coffee shops oh the coffee shops especially in palermo and palermo soho i could just spend all day just wandering around coffee shops and eating and drinking which to be fair in our last video pretty much is what we did you saw that one that was in puerto madero and palermo so that leads me on perfectly to the next thing that we absolutely love about ba and that is the many districts that there are to explore all within one city you could spend months in ba and just not run out of things to do it's really hard if someone says oh how long how long would you advise to have a trip in ba well we just spent nearly three weeks and we still have missed so many things and want to see so much more but you know we've got to move on we've got a whole country to see and then a whole continent to see it's an incredible city to see and there are so many districts to see san telmo which is one of the oldest uh districts in the city this would be fascinating and we were lucky enough to go there on a sunday when there's a sunday fairer which is just the streets are just lined with like stalls market stores and it's just like all local things really cool things to see street performers that was incredible um and then also la boca we absolutely love lebron that is the most colorful place i think i've ever been to in my life there's so much color to be seen there and that's just a a must-see place it's literally street art everywhere it's literally what you think of when you think of argentina tango dances in the street color music great food and just a happy vibe the entire time so yeah that's definitely a place to make time for when you come to a ba and of course there's recoleta which is absolutely fascinating we loved being there there's so much um to do there besides the cemetery but obviously that's the big thing to go and see i mean that's incredible huge mausoleums we walked around in the sun there for two three hours and we don't even speak spanish or read spanish very well so if it was that fascinating to us we didn't have a tour guide then yeah i can imagine if you speak the language or you have a tour guide it must be absolutely incredible but that's definitely an amazing place to go and eerie but absolutely fascinating and it's just kind of one of those things that i can see why it's so famous but i never before i came here would have thought i'd be walking around a cemetery in in my leisure time but yeah recoleta cemetery was incredible and recoleta as a district is so nice everything is so uh well put together you can tell it's definitely the up market uh part over at va and the shopping and the food again there is also incredible so yeah another incredible district to to go and see and then of course palermo soho itself with all the food and the drinks and the nightlife there i mean va is famous for its uh nightlife and being a city that never sleeps having stayed in palermo and palermo soho can definitely vouch for that night times are noisy um but it's a city it's what you expect and for us we're not really going out and partying all the time but on the few occasions where we did want to go out and have dinner and drinks in the evening it was so good and the scene i can imagine gets even better but obviously we're not really here to party but if that's your thing palermo soho is the place to be for that um and then also porto modero which is like really iconic looking place great for drinking partying food just chilling in a day as well we had a great time there and you can see the beautiful bridge with all the cool buildings in the background so yeah there's so many cool districts to see and they are just some of the ones that come to mind that we've been to i'm sure there's more i'm sure there's way more to see but yeah that's definitely something to love about ba and another thing that i absolutely loved was nobody told me about this how tasty the ice cream or the gelato is in ba i didn't know that was a thing but there's like on so many corners as you walk around there's gelato ice cream places everywhere the flavors and the choices of the ice cream out here like in every district that we went to every uh we were staying in palermo for quite a lot at the time and we got to just know our favorite place we would always just go there for ice cream to cool to cool down that was our reason um so yeah the ice cream nba ah amazing so good that's definitely a big big love of ba and the other thing is it's not too expensive here i know we did a video about the the blue rate and the official rate and for us uh coming from the uk um even if you're using the official rate uh going out and eating in a restaurant is probably going to cost you no more than like 30 pounds for two people for like a starter maine and a couple of alcoholic drinks each it's going to come to about 30 pounds so that's on the official rate if you're going to do it with the the blue dollar rate which although that keeps changing so it's not as good for us as it was when we started it's still going to be i don't know 15 16 pounds for a meal out which is incredible and something else that craig and i absolutely love because we love nature and for us we were kind of worried about spending so long in a city i know we spent a long time in tallinn but that's a quiet small city we were kind of intimidated by the size of ba when we first arrived because it is huge it is spread out like i said there's so many different districts to go and visit something that really really surprised us was the number of green spaces and parks in ba i looked it up and apparently there are 250 parks here in va we visited quite a few of them because we would sort of have our days where we're uh working or going out and filming and then we'd want to rest from the city and we'll just go out and get into a green space and the best thing about all these parks is they're completely free and they're more than just a green space we went to a few of them and the wildlife in them is incredible we were seeing like animals we've never seen before we're seeing hummingbirds just flying around and we were seeing deer that looked like it was like a deer slash hare and they were just lying there in this park just just chilling so many animals that we just did not expect to see just when you're just walking into these places in the middle of a city and feeling like you're no longer in the city it was amazing big big love for that we absolutely loved how much of a green space there was at every turn constantly everywhere you go so yeah definitely notice that the argentinians do love their green spaces you see them like walking their dogs just chilling cycling loads of spaces to exercise casually sipping their gerber mate if you can see the little one we've got here in our airbnb it's empty i'm not that cool sadly we don't have any gerber otherwise i'd be having some i really want to try some cherry we still haven't been able to we've learned all about it but you know we'll try some before we leave hopefully okay so now just to switch to a couple of the things that we didn't like so much or hated so of course the financial situation here in argentina is affecting the whole country i can't really just say that this is about ba but if you're visiting uh ba specifically then uh it's it's great if you know about the uh blue rate and you're able to go and get that if you're from the us and you're coming bring as many dollars with you as you can in cash because they love the dollars here and they everywhere you go there's signs saying cambio people on the corners of street shouting cambio exchange and they will take your dollars and give you a fantastic rate uh if not if you're like us coming from the uk obviously we don't walk around with dollars so we had to get to western union um and so you're going to get a really good rate that way as well um which is great but it's also really not great because as a tourist what that means is hey you've got to have your passport on you to go and get the money out so you're walking up with a passport on you and b you've got to walk around with a big chunk of cash on you and that's like putting a target on your head's a tourist and that's the complete opposite of what most people want to do when they go to places like as a tourist you want to keep things minimally we we try to kind of keep ourselves under the radar as much as we can i mean we stand out like a sore thumb because we always have a backpack so we always look like tourists but we try to keep it so that if someone did snatch our bag or something did happen there'd be nothing really worth in it for them to have um but yeah the truth is everybody here knows you're walking around with a bunch of cash on you because everyone's doing it so yeah that's definitely something that is definitely a thumbs down for ba or argentina in general i guess because you have to walk around with so much cash on you and we are so uncomfortable with doing that we've been here a while and we're still just not used to it and having to just constantly count up cash and figure out how much you're going to need for the day it feels really strange for us we're very lucky not to have had to have done that so yeah that's just something to to consider and the other one thing that we really really disliked whilst we were in va was any time you go to a restaurant and you sit outside in the street you will get hassled by people trying to sell you something or just asking you for money and it's that they will come up to your table and ask you things which obviously we don't speak spanish so quite often we just sort of say sorry we don't speak much spanish or poquito espana and some of them get actually quite aggressive and quite nasty we saw this one guy outside of our favorite ice cream shop in palermo he tried to speak to us and of course we couldn't understand him and then he picked on the next table and he just started attacking these women and having an argument quite often the staff will come out and sort of chase them away a bit this that one guy was pretty aggressive we didn't know what he was saying because it was in spanish but didn't sound too friendly and the two women that he was kind of verbally attacking handled it pretty well but they looked a bit stressed out by it and it's kind of not what you want when you're trying to relax so we noticed any time we sat anywhere even just sitting outside for a quick coffee when we were in the street we would get somebody come up to us within like five minutes so that really kind of made us think okay we won't sit on the street so there's an easy way around it we just never sat on the tables in the street we always sat inside yeah that's something that made us feel pretty uncomfortable and we really disliked that and of course there is the thing of ba being a city that never sleeps means that it is noisy 24 7. so especially when we're staying right in the center of palermo soho uh i did sleep with earplugs in um but that's because i'm a country girl i'm from the countryside so i'm used to nice quiet places so i knew that and i went in knowing that so i can't really say i hated that because i was prepared for it but there were times when especially when we're trying to like i'm trying to record voiceovers for our videos and i just i'd get halfway through what i'm saying and a motorbike would just be like wow flying past i'd literally just jump because i'm a wimp like that but yeah so it's noisy 24 7 but i you know i guess it's a city what can we expect and there's one final thing which craig and i are kind of divided on as to whether this is something to love or something to hate but there is a really big police presence in ba when you look around there are a lot of tourist police uh as you go as you're going around which craig sees that as a positive thing it makes him feel really safe um whereas i feel a little bit ambivalent towards it it makes me feel like why do they need to be here well what's happening what should i know i know it might be a bit silly but that's how i feel it does make me feel safe to an extent but it's just for me it's that constant reminder that danger is there which maybe that's a good thing perhaps i need that um so yeah that that's that's kind of open to your interpretation but the tourist police are there to protect you and help you i guess so it's a good thing but yeah so a few negatives there but nothing too bad and certainly nothing to take away from how incredible everything is just ah the people the food the color the buildings the parks oh i love it all thank you va we've had the best time here exploring your city i'll take all the time buenos aires craig laughs me so thank you buenos aires for the best three weeks we've had the best time i hope you guys have enjoyed exploring it with us and we are so excited to show you the rest of argentina as we travel around it so excited hopeful that we'll find uh great food as we continue spoiler alert so far it's going great it's not hard to be vegetarian in this country not like i thought it would be but so far it's going really well hopefully that continues so yeah that's just our experience here in ba we've had a fantastic time and we think that the things that we've loved massively outweigh the tiny little things that didn't like so much um and yeah 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