Lessons Learned
I've been home for a week now, and it's given me time to reflect on what was a totally epic travel adventure. I've learned more than I could ever document, but here are some of my key reflections. I probably should have learned Spanish instead of French. Or both. Argentinian Spanish pronunciation is completely different from that in Spain or Chile. LL is pronounced shzzz, not yuh. The Y in playa is pronounced juh, so ply-juh. It took me several weeks to figure this out. Being able to say, in Spanish, “I'm sorry, but I don't speak Spanish very well” buys you a lot of good will. When you have been travelling for a long time in places where they speak Spanish, your ear gets used to hearing it and you convince yourself you understand until you realise you don’t. In Spanish, people use the term “Senora” a lot to denote a married or older woman. This translates to people calling...