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Teresopolis The many fingers of Teresopolis We decided to have a break from the city and head in to the mountains for a few days staying at Teresopolis. Teresopolis is a small town that on a quick google search promised a number of fun sights to see, and of course a fun hike into the mountains. The first day we gathered our trusty satchel and headed to the information centre to get some information on how to enter the park and for a few things to do, we stopped at one of the trusty sights the fountain of Judith on the way. The fountain was quite Dutch in style, mostly porcelain tiles with a blue flowery nun on them. Lots of the local used this fountain to fill up their own water bottles. There was very little information at this location but we assume this saint made drinking water in a land where the tap water was bad. Perhaps she was the first to filter water with her stockings, perhaps she secretly boiled the water with her wrath behind her fount we will never know. ...

Buenos Aires, A cow walked into a bar, we ate him... Selfies at the Pink House We spent a week in Buenos Aires, unfortunately we had very bad jet lag, and slept through the whole first day. Unintentionally, completely, unintentionally, just shut my eyes for ten minutes after our morning alarm and it was 4:45pm. Whoops. Cabildo in Plaza De Mayo We spent a bit of time in the Plaza De Mayo, saw the pretty pink government building, visited the old church on the corner; which were alright, but nothing special. Then we looked at the white building that was one of the first buildings, or government buildings, there was some history there. Apparently England invaded, could tell from the red and white uniforms in the paintings. We are greedy aren't we. It's quite strange to think that the 'history' of these places is only about 200-400 years old, to be fair when we went to Uruguay some of the early settlements   were from the late 1600. Nevertheless nothi...