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Day 22

Last night Jo and I finally made it to see a futbol match in South America. We saw River vs Estudiantes play at a local stadium in Buenos Aires. I do not know much about futbol over here, but we are told River are top of the league so it was a pretty good team to see play.

The atmosphere in the stadium was absolutely incredible. The nearest thing I can liken it to is some kind of tribal warfare, with both sides beating drums for the duration of the match. We were seated in a safe part of the stadium but in the ends by the goal mouths things looked crazy with people on masse jumping up and down on the stands at the slightest provocation! On top of that the game itself was pretty special, with 4 goals (ended 3 River, 1 Estudiantes) and countless yellow cards.

We also met some nice guys from Montreal who were about to head to the Antarctic for 10 months to conduct a weather experiment. I didnt quite grasp the full story, but they gave us their website which is…

www.sedna.tv

Check it out if you are interested. Im about to take a look myself

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