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starting to travel again ... not alone anymore

Commenting the Argentinean bureaucracy would probably take too long, but just to have a short overview of the start of our trip.
We spent 4 days before already in Rosario doing one step after the other to get our Visa, well, we did that three weeks ago already and we should have been sent to Buenos Aires 3 times by now, but there was either a copy of a page of the passport missing or something else without importance was wrong.
Entonces, finally our University sent us in the middle of the night (thursday to friday at 3 am) to Buenos Aires, because they told us that we'd have a meeting there to finish our Visa and to finally receive it a few weeks later. But, arrived in Buenos Aires after an hour of waiting there was no way to get the Visa as they told us that we're in the wrong province and we'd have to go to the administration of the province of Santa Fe. - Well, not even the staff of the University has the overview of the system here anymore ;)

Luckily the weather was great as we left the immigration office - about 20 cm of water on the street and rain like a wall was outside, waiting for us. spending 20 min waiting for a cab, as they hesitated to drive into the "lake" around the immigration office.
To make us of a new transportation system, which is rare in Argentina, we decided to take the train to Tigre, about 40 min outside of Buenos Aires. When we arrived there it was still raining, so the first walk lead into a shop to buy our umbrella.
Tigre was, even though it was raining, from the first moment on really beautiful, clean, very well maintained, with a lot of parks, green space and the river wiggling through the town, loaded with boats of all kinds.
As all ferries to Colonia, Uruguay were sold out for the day we decided to stay in Tigre for the night and starting looking for accomodation. As "Lonely Planet" didn't give any information we just started to wander around and ask people whether they'd know where to find a place to sleep, but we soon realized that "Lonely Planet" knew why it didn't offer any information on accomodation. Most people in town didn't even know a hostel nor a camp site. At first we found a hotel on an island, where they wanted to offer us all inclusive for a night / was to stressful and expensive in the end" / then we dropped into an hour hotel, while i at first didn't even realize what it was and started counting the amount of hours we'd need to get good sleep, Jasmin was more attend and pushed me out of the hotel as fast as possible again. (i thought a jacussi could be nice in a room, just the price for the hour was quite high ;) ) / in the end we found, after asking about 20 people a family driven hostel near a fruit market where we stayed the night.
Having great "all you can eat" chinese food for 10 euro alltogether, bottle of wine included, we enjoyed satisfied our first night of the trip together.

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