testmeat photoblog

i arrived in bahia blanca early in the morning, and had to wait until about 7pm for the train to buenos aires, which gave me the whole day to kill. despite an attractive sounding name, it's not easy to entertain yourself in bahia blanca for a day. it took me two cups of coffee and 6 medialunas in a wifi enabled coffee shop before i exhausted my laptop battery, so the rest of the time was mainly spent walking around in the overpowering heat. i strolled towards the train station with plenty of time, and saw this broken down building close by. the other side was falling apart, but i was curious what the view would be like from the top of the disintegrating staircase. half way up i encountered a half naked dude, who i'd politely describe as under the influence. i thought it would look strange if i ran back down, so i pointed to my camera, then up to the top of the stairs and said tocar un foto. i didn't understand the response, but he didn't seem to mind me continuing. when i got to the very top i found another half naked dude, this time doing up his flies. i'll level with you, i was pretty scared. i was trapped between two half naked junkies at the top of a crumbling staircase with an expensive camera hanging round my neck, only able to pick out potentially threatening words like policia and drogas. i tried to explain i only wanted to take a picture of the view, at which point the downstairs dude started arguing with the upstairs dude. i left them still deep in debate with an out of focus picture and an elevated heart-rate.

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