Buenos Aires

Saturday, 4 April

Buenos Aires

It was very wet while we were having breakfast so we went out prepared with coats but the weather cleared as we were boarding our bus for a city tour. What luck we are having with the weather.

Buenos Aires is a beautiful city, laid out with broad boulevards and many parks. It has a very Parisian feel as the architectural style is modelled on France. We visited four districts and saw some lovely sculptures, such as the big, shiny flower, which is meant to close at night but is broken. There was only one sculpture of Evita but we saw her face on a big building. On one side of the building she is shouting at the wealthy people who live on that side of the city and on the opposite side of the building she is smiling in the direction of the poorer part of the city.

We visited a market area with colorful buildings and plaster sculptures of tango dancers etc on the walls. Here we were able to finally change some money. We also drove through an area with many embassies and again it felt very European. At the end of the tour we were dropped at the cemetery and we wandered through there looking for Evita's tomb which we eventually found in a little street where lots of people had gathered. Outside the cemetery was another market which didn't really have anything to tempt us so off we went to find an ice cream for lunch and to get a map so that've could find our way back to the hotel. It was only three blocks away and, in fact, we could see the cemetery from our hotel window.

Dinner tonight was a steak (enormous) accompanied by red wine( whole bottle polished off!). We now feel that we have sampled the two "must haves" of Argentina - and they were both excellent. We have done our duty. Tomorrow we fly to Iguasu.

 

 

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