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Buenos Aires: Better scene than tasted

by Bruce

Our original plan was to fly from Bogota into Rio de Janeiro in time for Christmas but lagging visas and the very strong Brazilian Real had us rethink that last minute. We decided to skip Brazil this trip and head straight to Buenos Aires, Argentina figuring we could really use the extra time to explore the second largest land mass in South America.

Buenos Aires lived up to its reputation for being the Europe of South America. Beautiful neighborhoods (Retiro is amazing), chic shops, large parks and plazas. Its a wonderful mix of old and new and the porteños are proud of it.  On the other hand there’s the glaring issue of trash and litter which most people simply ignore.  Just watch your step! Generally speaking, its no wonder why tourists flock to this capital city. Now in terms of Argentinian cuisine,  we were left wanting much, much more.  We did arrive during Christmas when many stores and restaurants were closed for the holiday and on top of this there was a city wide meat shortage so to be fair we were handicapped from the start.  Good meat was hard to find but at least we had maté and lots of terrific inexpensive wine.  Thankfully there’s more to enjoy than just Malbec.  To be fair we’ll have to go back when at least one of the most recommended restaurants is open  - Cafe San Juan in San Telmo, we shall return!

In the meanwhile, Here’s a retrace of our some of our steps and my short list of things to do and see:

*take the free walking tour of downtown. super informative

*skate or bike around Parque 3 de Febrero on a weekend. great people watching

*take a tango class, its great exercise and a national pastime

*visit the Recoleta cemetery and get there early.

*take a walk down Puerto Madero or further south along the Ecologic Reserve

*Eat a medialuna.  Drink lots of wine.

doing the jitterbuglining up for groceriestrain station Tigre DeltaSan Telmobreaded chicken filletsfresh selectstreet viewAmerican motor in Buenos AIrespalomastreet liferental cararchitectural detail in San Telmolady looking over her balconydance performance at La Virutapicadasfinding love in La Bocalunch at Olse in Palermo Hollywoodthe daylocal butcher stalldetail of the roofsan telmo apartmentsan telmo market built in the late 1800sone mantrash bin looking northsan isidro stationcatedraltigre deltatrainon the Mitre line northboundafternoon slackline at Parque 3 de Febrerosunset skateboard ridetrain trackshi-risenoodles and shrimp in barrio Chinochicken in barrio ChinoChinatown aka barrio Chinopapas fritassalad devouredMott in PalermoLa RecoletaLa Recoletaanother street summer walk thru downtownstopping for lunchfeeding the birdsfree walking tourswrought iron balconiesarchtiecture based on Dantegirls graduation ritualcapitolbanderadowntown BsAs is best explored on foot, or in our case on skateboardcrosswalktrees along Belgranoantennaehotel carlosthe capital building newstand Eva Peron muralrooftop terracerevolution monumentHarry standing in front of one of the commemoration postersjesus standing next to the church in San Isidro

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