(John)

First, find a guia, a guide... you can buy one anywhere or if you ride the subway long enough someone will try and sell you one...

Second, find where your destination is on the map. Maybe you want to go to Plaza Italia, that's D5.

Then find what bus lines run through D5 (for example). Here, there are loads, most of which carried on down Santa Fe and past our old apartment.

Once you've done that, you have to find your starting point in the guia and see which buses go through or near that... in our case it's the 55, but then, well then you have to check where the bus actually goes, because it's one thing to know that it's in D5 but does it go down Borges? Or Thames? Which street do you look for the stop in?

So you use the handy back section and follow the route in the guia.

Simple no?

(Liz) Hmmm, not that simple! I caught the bus home from work the other evening and ended up at least 20 blocks away. It turns out there are two 168s (my usual bus back to Villa Crespo) taking two different routes. I was reading my book, waiting for the bouncy railway lines, which is my call to get up and ring the bell...except it had gone a different way. I didn't recognise the area, but then I spotted a Subte station..always handy. It was a station two stops along from ours, so I ended up getting the train home, eh well.  ¶ 7:51 PM