Buenos Aires
5:49 PM
Today completes a week in Buenos Aires, a section of my holiday completely unplanned and intended to be used for some R&R before my next big trip up the east coast of South America.
We flew in from Lima and made our way to an apartment in Palermo, an upmarket area of Buenos Aires. We originally were meant to have one, 2 bed apartment but ended up with two, 1 bed apartments. Either way. Fantastic building, very nice. We finished the day out looking around our local area a bit before heading to an early bed.
Day 2 we explored Buenos Aires central. We started in Palermo and walked through Recoleta, visiting the famous cemetary, which is incredible. One of the famous people buried there is Evita, as in "Don´t cry for me Argentina", Evita. We continued our long walk into the microcentre, visiting the busy street of Florida before finding a pub to watch some soccer.
The next day, we did a bit more looking around the local area, doing a bit of shopping and sorting out things like getting photos burnt to DVD, etc. That afternoon we had organised to go and see a soccer match for local team, Boca. Whilst not a soccer fan as such, the atmosphere was incredible to experience.
May 1 marked labour day in Argentina and most things were closed. I spent a bit of time walking around trying to find something open and eventually ended up at the cinema's to watch X-men. It´s a "meh" movie at best. Reasonably quiet rest of day.
Saturday we did more shopping and also checked out a museum of contemporary art before getting ourselves ready for a tango lesson, dinner and show in the evening. The tango is a relatively difficult dance but I´d like to think I showed some talent during the beginners lesson. The dinner and show was good too.
Sunday was all about Oasis. We spent the morning finding a ticket office after doing some research on the net then in the afternoon, we visited the markets in San Telmo, ate a late lunch by the dock area, then returned back to our apartments, and got ready for the concert. We elected to get seated tickets rather than standing room which I was ok with given they aren´t my favourite band. The concert was really good with some classics such as What´s the story, morning glory?, Don´t look back in Anger, Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall among others.
Today was our last day in Buenos Aires. We had to move out of our luxury apartments into a relatively unimpressive hostel in the downtown area and tonight we are to meet our tour group (14 in total if the sign is to be believed) before we leave for Uruguay tomorrow via boat. I was told by an Argentinian women that the things to do in Buenos Aires was a football (Soccer) match, a steak dinner and a tango show, and then you could move on. I can safely say I´ve done all of those things so I guess it´s time to go again.
My last part of my holiday officially starts today with a 17 day tour from here in Buenos Aires through Uruguay to Rio de Janiero in Brazil. That´ll be countries 4 (Argentina), 5 (Uruguay) and 6 (Brazil) for this trip. Looking forward to it.
Hope all is well back home. I was disappointed to hear the Eagles lost and I must post my condolences to Peter and family for their loss of Bluey a few days ago. Rest in Peace.
Cheers from BA!
Dave
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