Las Malvinas son Argentinas!
Autor: Phil | Publicado: 2011-01-11T04:34:00-02:00

Hallo leute! This is an old post I was writing but I had to go to somewhere to do something and well, did not finish this nutty story! Haha, hope you enjoy!

Oooooooooe, wazzup guys! Geez, I just returned from a crazy trip I had with my dad to Argentina and Uruguay, BY CAR!

It was AWESOME, even the final result being FAILED, it was unutterable! All this insanity started in São Bernardo do Campo, on saturday at 1:30 pm I guess...we were planning this trip kinda one week before, but it was not confirmed till this time cuz we were plannin to go on sunday and return on tuesday! The purpose to all this madness was to take a sample of some kind of beans in Buenos Aires, and if everything got ok, Brazil would start to buy those seeds from Argentina to produce it in Brazil, well, ok...but by airplane it would not work, because it was a big amount of seeds to carry...so, we had to try by earth!
We decided to go on sat, but it was already sat...it was kinda 1:30 pm and we decided to just organize our stuff and take a lil nap to go asap! We left home nearly by 3:45 am, I was still not believin I was gonna help my pa to do that...I don't even speak spanish as well! My spanish is kinda basis on basic! I am just able to understand everything, but Im bit slow to answer things, and also my vocabulary is not so good...haha, nuts!

Ok, we crossed south of Brazil, crossed Santa Catarina under a very heavy unstoppable rain, crossed Rio Grande do Sul and just stopped a few kilometers of the frontier, slept for a few hours in a hotel in Uruguaiana - Rio Grande do Sul acreditem, a cidade da fronteira do Brasil com Argentina chama Uruguaiana...hahaha, had a good coffee and tried to go to Argentina, but we had to return cuz we didn't have kinda insurance green card to join there...ok, we were lucky and took it in a couple of hours, and finally got into the tierra de nuestros hermanos! The policemen stopped us for SIX times, just because we were from Brazil, in a brazilian car...well, let me tell you something really cool, somebody maybe brazilian trolled the argentines for ever! LOL
The reason? Well, I'm quite sure they don't follow their laws, but they should carry two triangles I am not really sure if they call that as triangles in english, but never mind! I know you got it cuz you, who is reading my blog, might be brazilian! Hahahaha, a 1st aid kit and a steel rope to tow someone (?). Well, I googled it when we were in Brazil and also found we had to carry two white sheets to put on supposed victims of accidents, and hell yeah, I thought it was an absurd and it really was! We got into the argentine consulate to ask the veracity of those informations and they gave us a document which was written:

THERE IS NO LAW IN ARGENTINA WHICH OBLIGATES YOU TO CARRY TWO WHITE SHEETS

LOL, someone created this bullshit and now everyone asks to them, so they had to create a doc to warn everyone it is a LIE! SUCK THAT, ARGENTINA! (;

A funny video to break this long text (:


Well, those dirty policemen fined us in almost R$150,00 cuz we did not have two triangles...bah, we just paid the fine and left, we know they were trying to get some money from us, but I will NEVER give money to them, all I would tell them is "BURN IN HELL, YOUR ASSHOLE!", ok, maybe that's not the best I could say but that's what I'd like to...
Ok, we returned to the road and stopped in a gas station and bought another triangle and the 1st aid kit and the steel rope, well, you can check our shoppings just under the text! (:
The road till Buenos Aires was not so calm, the policemen stopped us maybe a couple of times after the fine, but we were using the last one as a excuse, hoping they feel a bit of...mercy maybe! Hahaha, well, we got into Buenos Aires and found the hotel we would stay, left our things, took a shower and gone to a bar to have a good beer...well, I really have to say I've never had such a good conversation with my dad! Well, maybe God was just planning this trip to give us that single moment! Ok, maybe not just THAT moment, but this whole travel! We talked a lot well, if we had just kept the silence during almost 5000 km, that would be the worst-crazy-nuts-travel-by-car-from-São-Bernardo-to-Buenos-Aires-in-a-Uno-Mille EVER! Hahah
In the next day we took the seeds and started to go home yeah, we stayed there just one day! CRAZY, I know...
After that, on the road again, but still close to Buenos Aires, the policemen were already stopping us again...hell yeah, we knew they would not allow us to go in peace back to Brazil...well, we were stopped by 3 times I guess when we stopped to put some gas in the car and have a coffee when we decided to get out of Argentina ASAP! We checked it on the internet and saw we were just a few kilometers from Uruguay, and we remade our planning and took the way to Uruguay!
When we got to the border, they did not allow us to join in Uruguay with those seeds, and well, when we just stopped the car to give the documents to them I saw a very big and readable board, which was telling to all the people able to read that was not allowed to exchange nourishing things! Ok, in this moment I saw God telling me we would not bring those seeds to Brazil!
When we took off all the seeds, we felt much better, we were so relieved! After that our journey become way better, in Uruguay we were not stopped! Not even once! I'm not complaining about that, it's just an observation! (:

We bought a GPS in Argentina cuz we didn't know anything about that country, and it was way easier to go to anywhere! And there was the map of Uruguay there, thats helped us a lot to choose this way to go home, and well, we just putted the address of the city which was the border to Brazil and we were just goin in this direction...when we were close to there, we started to saw some boarders about the custom between Brazil and Uruguay, and we were following them and also checking on the GPS...but the GPS was always losing his signal and it was already late...we decided to sleep in a hotel and take our way back just in the morning, when we found a hotel, I just started asking about the price in spanish, well, believe me, it's not that hard! Hahaha and the attendant was talking to me in a very similar accent...kinda south brazilian portuguese! Bah, WE WERE ALREADY IN BRAZIL! Thats why the GPS was failing! lol
In the morning we walked a lil bit and we saw that there was no frontier! It was just a small square with the flags for you, to take a picture!
That place was an absurd, kinda opened sky duty free! Lots of things being sold without taxes! We joined in Uruguay several times, and also to Brazil as well...we had our lunch in Uruguay and after that gone to Porto Alegre, our next and last, and I can't forget to say: our best pit stop...

We stopped in Porto Alegre in my uncle's place, I never visited him and his family, they always go to São Paulo and nobody goes to Porto Alegre! Of course it is way easier if they go cuz they are just four! You have to agree with me now, we were so close to them and we HAD to stop there! Even if it was just to say hello! my dad was not planning this, but I begged him so much that he finally surrendered!
Well, all the moments were awesome, unfortunately my cousin was not there cuz she was in Rio to make the things about her visa to London, but I could enjoy some good and unique moments with my cousin! We played Wii and another game on a arcade, before having dinner, in the restaurant!
I also talked a lot with my uncle, well, I can call him as a really nice friend, not just an uncle! (:

In the next day we woke up, had breakfast with my uncle and his family and returned to São Bernardo...our final destination! I was sooooooo tired, I drove just for a few hours, my dad finished the journey when we finally got home. We just parked the car, locked the gate and lied each one in its own bed...we were really exausted!

Well, thats my story! It IS true and I KNOW IT WAS AN INSANITY! Hahahaha, hope you enjoy this with me!
Some people were following all this in my twitter!

You might be askin why the title is "Las Malvinas son Argentinas" if I didn't mention anything about something about this! Well, during the road, we found lots of boards with this phrase! I know it is nuts, I really thought they were idiots to put those things, spending public money to do it...if you don't believe me, just write the title on Google Images! You will find this:

























Cool, isn't? Well, maybe they were bothering us cuz I'm british! Well, we will never know, but I would not discuss if that was the reason! Hahahah

Here goes another good videos and some pics! Enjoy it and comment if possible (:

Funny and nuts japanese dancers! Hahaha


A nice A Cappella!


A pic from the border of Brazil and Uruguay!




















This is in a house of a friend of mine, in Guaratuba, really close to the beach (:


New year fireworks!


When we were crossing Santa Catarina (:


A park in Paulista Avenue


Light painting!


Baaai!