Today I was going to go on a day trip to a Rancho but things didn’t go as planned. I’d booked the tour online last night and received an email confirmation and directions to a meeting point. Trouble is, nobody met me at the meeting point. I got hold of the company I booked through and they apologised a lot and are processing my refund – shame as I think it would have been a good day out.

So plan B was to do a free city walking tour but when I looked at what it covered I had seen a lot of it already yesterday.

So next plan was to go the market in San Telmo. On the way I popped into the cultural centre.

They also had an exhibition of ‘Las diablas’ – The annual Carnival in Uquia where more than 300 people dressed as devils descend a sacred hill whilst lots of drums are playing. It happened earlier in February so one to do another time. The photographs were amazing.

After having a fix of culture I headed down to San Telmo which is the main area in BA for tango. And I wasn’t disappointed as I saw a couple of tango dancers on the streets – they were really good.

There was also a huge market all down one street leading into San Telmo, around 12 blocks of it, as well as in Plaza Dorrego itself. So I mooched around that for a while and also visited the bar in the square.

I then headed back into town and visited the famous Cafe Tortini where I stopped for a hot chocolate and churros.

Nicely refreshed I walked on to the Plaza del Congreso and saw the Palacio del Congreso.

As I walked back to the apartment I stopped off at Plaza Lavalle and saw the courts of Justice.

Tonight I spoke to Mum and Dad and Nicola- modern technology is so good sometimes. I’ve got a good Wi-Fi signal in the flat so it was easy to chat using WhatsApp.

I went to a lovely little Italian, Broccolino, for dinner – despite me trying to order in Spanish the waiter twigged I was English and then looked after me really well. The food was average but the service was great. I had to walk through the kitchen to pay by card which was an experience- luckily everything looked clean and hygienic!

Tomorrow I’m going back to school to learn some Spanish!