So we travelled back to BA from Uruguay and it didn't disappoint, on arrival we ate our first take away, mmmmm Chinese! So what did we do different to the last time we where in BA? well...we revisited Palermo only this time in glorious sunshine, which allowed us to take in the botanical gardens, the Japanese gardens, as well as the street Market fashion designers! While visiting the gardens, and a few other parks during our travels, our attention was turned to how under utilised our public spaces are, in the parks here of a weekend you can hire bikes, roller blades, pedalows etc and everyone uses the park to spend time with friends and family or to exercise! My musings where that, with no football played on a saturday afternoon made this possible!
We also paid a visit to Eva Perons grave, or more accurately her tomb! The cemetery where she rests, is predominantly filled with highly decorative buildings, most with windows allowing you to see the caskets that are housed within, and some have a crypt to house multiple generations of the family, rather than being secured by a few tonnes of soil. god help BA if night of the living dead where ever to occur for real! The cemetery houses a lot of wealthy and previously famous people, be they politicians, scientists, medics or war generals!
In BA is a 30 or so foot, mechanical flower, the petals open during the day, and then close up as the sunsets of an evening!
We managed to take in the national park this time. Although there were no severe weather warnings, the park was kind of in drought. both the duck and gull pond contained no water, but the street sellers outside the parks entrance sold some amazing street meat!
Final act of the stay was to visit the famous camnito street in La Boca, this area sees the buildings decorated in bright colours, and offer tango shows on the street, with photos to be had in tango regalia! They even have their own Diego-a-like, so good we had a double take to see if was the man himself! The Boca Juniors stadium is also in the Neighbourhood, the character offered by this yellow breeze blocked behemoth, puts our Ikea, self assembly flat pack stadiums to shame. Unfortunately even though our visit coincided with El Classico, boca v river plate, the only available tickets where priced at £90 each, and we're aren't that much of a togger nut to pay that sort of money!
During our time in BA we has our first and second Argentinian steak one which we cooked on the electric job in the hostel, still didn't disappoint, and the other a beautiful tenderloin from a busy little local restaurant, and both of them made the meat we get at home look like meat you would give the dog, no fat or string bits, and hardly and water lost out of them! B E A Utiful.
We are both kind of gutted to be leaving BA, it's somewhere we both really took to, nowhere did we feel unsafe, and the city seemed to open it's arms to us, definitely a place we would revisit and would recommend! But with hostels in chile booked for christmas we need to make tracks through the rest of Argentina.
We are presently on a bus to Mar del Plata, a seaside resort to the south of BA. We plan on spending the weekend there before heading further to the south an into the Patagonia region!
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