Honeymoons

Martin is learning Spanish the hard way in Las Violetas, a lovely cafe in BsAs.

Then with fans singing Argentinean football songs at the Independente match:

Carlos' boot and mate in a BsAs park.

and pics from La Boca:

and from a place everywhere in Buenos Aires:

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Mart:
Cheers from the outskirts of the world!

Up to now, we didn´t have stable internet access, but everybody back in Europe: feel hugged!

We miss you all, your wits, humor, love.

We saw the worse and some better parts of Buenos Aires and then the wonderful waterfalls of Iguazu yesterday - amazing.
Unfortunately today the whole region became a waterfall area, literally, and now we´re heading back Southwest again.

Love, cris and mart

The plain to Madrid: With all the visas in the passport, the backpacks packed, here are the two of us, on 26th September, 06:00 at the Tegel Airport waiting to check in and finally get going. The flight was comfy and we did enjoy our morning sleep :D

The plain to Buenos Aires: here we met Carlos, our first couchsurfing host who was extremely helpful to the two of us, who after more than 20 hours of travelling with no place to sleep in Buenos Aires, basic info on the city or its transportation system, welcomed it greatly! So, here we are taking a taxi and looking out of the window: MCdonald`s adds, not a bad infrastructure and appartment blocks (which, by the way, during that night looked so much like certain quarters from Chisinau!).

And here we enter our first sleeping room :D. Just to mention it shortly, as Carlos was coming from a 4-month trip through Europe, so he had no more a place of his. With that key that he had in his hand, we opened his granpa`s cabinet, who was, by the way, a surgeon. No joke, we are setting our tent and sleping the first two nights in a surgeon`s cabinet, surrounded by all king of diplomas, skeleton drawings and Rembrandt`s painting Anatomy of Dr. Tulp

So there we are in the tent, 5 am European time, thinking about a 6-months-honeymoon, all unpredictable and exciting.

Cris

So, finally we are in the 'stressful' time before the departure :-)

We moved out from our rooms, now we have no jobs and no place of our own (thanks to our wonderful parents, we can still always drop a longer visit when coming back :-)) , but we surely have a lot of good mood and 2 big backpacks that are truly eager to discover latin america! :-)

Today, Friday, 25th September, I got my last visa. Now I can proundly show off with my passports :-). The Mexican one is valid for 180 days! Quite amazing!

Martin is having his exam at the moment and I am sneaking in the Potsdam University, pretending to be student here, in order to get to this computer room, to check for people to stay over and places to be conquered by us :-)

Married and “with a little help from our friends", as the old Beatles and Joe Cocker said, we managed to bring our dream to reality - backpacking latin america- live the splendor of south American nature, learn the Argentinean tango, practice the ever-good-sounding Brazilian Portuguese, walk the Inca-trails in Peru, and feel the freshness of the Chileans glaciers.

In about 24 hours, we will take off from Madrid, and in the following 12 hours that we would spend on the plane, we would surely enjoy the planning of our route and travel timetable.

Dear all, I just hope the winter will not be too cold, hehehehe :-)!

We will surely miss all of you guys ! ! ! ! !

Martin: To see how it all really started, find my old travelblogs... To prepare a honeymoon, it definitely takes a marriage, at least.
In April 2007 (on April 15th, as a nice present and to make sure I don't forget her birthday ), I proposed marriage to my beloved girlfriend Cris, and she said yes.
Some months later, a couple of friends had informed us that the marriage would have to take place within one year according to traditions - and for us this seemed less and less ridiculous an option.
So in March 2008 we hitchhiked to Denmark, spent a lovely time in spring holidays with my parents and our best man + best lady and got married on the Danish North Sea coast.

To make it fair, we also celebrated in our home cities Dresden

and in Chişinău.

And now here we are, getting visas for Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Mexico and buying items like sleeping bags and stuff - cause our plan is not to have one, but still we don't wanna freeze in Patagonia...