The Fun Crusade. Mar Del Plata

Got a flat tire on our way to Mar Del Plata. We pulled over, and searched the car for a spare, in the boot, under the passenger seat and under the car.

Luckily Ugs remembered who to call for help like this, so we gave them a call. They needed someone who could speak spanish though, so we flagged down these street kids. Watching them like an eagle (so they couldn't run off with the phone), they sorted stuff out for us.

We ended up waiting for ages.

Ugs sorting stuff out.

These are the two street or flag kids that helped us. There's lots of them hanging out on streets with flags and they kinda stand there and wave when there is a parking spot. But right next to the spot itself, so I'm not sure why they were born.





Kev helping the situation by standing around and plucking his nipple hairs out.

Eventually the dude turned up. With much angst, we explained the situation. He smiled popped the bonnet and there was the spare.
broken down car.



Mar Del Plata is a big city built around a beach. Argentinians flock to this place during the summer, and apparently the beach is one of the most crowded in the world.








There is a massive soccer game on Saturday night too, between the BOCA JUNIORS and RIVERPLATE. These are the two biggest teams in football crazy Argentina, and long time rivals. It´s suppose to be a friendly game, but apparently tensions between the teams means it'll be anything but. We drove to the stadium to find tickets but it's 50,000 capacity was sold out. We ended up finding this crazy local guy who was scalping tickets. We bought seven from him, for about $10 each.

I wanted to take a photo of him, so I asked him to pose for me.



I'm excited about the soccer game. Apparently every single match here is like the NRL grand finals, but times 100.

In Argentina, there is a famous brand of chocolate called Alphajora. Which is pronounced "Alpha w-h-o-r-e"... Clearly this is asking for trouble..

Ugurs licking his Alpha w-h-o-r-e.

Kev showing off his Alpha w-h-o-r-e.

The FUN Crusade. Pinamar.

Pinamar, Buenos Aires.

A Fiat is a really small car, when you´ve got three guys and four back packs. It was a nice drive down though.

For the early part of the journey, I sat in the back seat, so I could take photos of people. This gumpy looking kid tried studiously to ignore me, until his mum came out. I yelled out "Ola!" and waved. The little kid was still a bit surly, but then his mum smacked him, and made him wave.



We also thought of a fun game. We would pick a random person, usually an mama cita on a bike, and whoever was driving had to follow her, while the rest competed to see who got the best photo - celebrity stalking style.




Kev pissing.


Ugur pissing.


Uh, Jesus just standing there.


Two horses cuddling after making sweet, sweet horse love.

Argentina is famous for steaks. I crept into a farm along the way, to take some pictures of these bad boys. I figured it was safe because they were chica cows, I wasn´t wearing red, and even if they do stampede, I do kick boxing.

Pinamar itself is kinda cool. It´s a small place a bunch of bars and restuarants nestled amongst, rather unexpectedly a bunch of car dealerships. Kinda what the fruit of the loins of Parramatta Road and Byron Bay would look like.

At about 11, we went out for dinner. I had a Beeftec, (a steak). It was nice, really cheap, but not mind blowing.

We went to a bar called ¨Blue Mango¨, where they were having a promotional party for KENT cigerettes. It was cool, the people were trendy, the music was good and the drinks were free. We thought of a fun game here too. We would say each say something to the locals in english, which sounds easy, but when you´re allocated phrases like ¨Can you smoke a cigerette through your ass?¨ it becomes much harder. Especially if you don´t know exactly how much english they understand.

After that we went to a club called KU. It was big.


All this foam started dropping from the ceiling.


Me and Ugs with and some how some chick got her ass in the photo too...


We told everyone that we were professional surfers from Australia.

It´s kinda weird being Asian here. The Argentinian population is very homogenous, you hardly see different nationalities around. It is especially weird being of Asian appearance, but from Australia. Most people don´t know what to make of you. Both Kev and I feel that people look at us funny here. Sometimes, they´ll even say ¨chino¨(chinese) to their friends as we walk pass. I don´t think it´s a racist thing, just different. I´m used to people looking at me funny, so I don´t mind, but it annoys Kev.

We left Ugur with his new senorita friends and Kev and I left KU at about 5 - 6 in the morning. As we were walking back, we heard some guy say ¨chino¨. So we stopped and turned around. It was this Argentinian guy, which about five of his friends. The guys here though, they are happy to say stuff, but won´t back it up. Or they are used to saying stuff to Asians who just let it slide.

Anyway, we stood there, amongst of crowd of Argeninian holiday makers and pointed at him and laughed. Loudly. And just yelled things directly at him while he looked rather embarrassed and studiously avoided eye contact. It was only until we were pointing directly at him (there was no way he could even pretend that he didn´t notice us) and yelling ¨YOU. COME HERE.¨that he even looked at us.