We arrived in Buenos Aries on a cold foggy day. Much more European than the other cities in South America. We followed the advice of our guide and headed to a steak house - the steaks arrived and were about inch thick and covered three quarters of the plate - yum!
Half day city tour. We got to see the changing of the guard outside the Presidential Palace....but no football as all the South Amercian countries are involved in Pan Am games and the South American Cup...however we visited the Bocca football stadium - we think our driver was more excited than us....we saw one young man in his early 20´s with tears in his eyes - obviously very passionate about their futebal! We visited like every tourist Eva Perons crypt.....
Tango on Friday night. The dancers were amazing. This included a band with piano, chello, piano accordian, guitartist and a male singer and a female diva. We also enjoyed the performance of a traditional band - complete with pink ponchos - very difficult to look manly playing the ukelele in a pink poncho!! The theatre was very small and traditional. Gorgeous.
On Saturday nite (after a hectic day shopping, shopping, shopping for leather, jewellery and art work - every girls paradise - no necklace yet) we went to Cafe Tortoni. This was fantastic. The tables were oak topped with marble. Alfresco and stained glass ceilings. We had a great steak sandwich and irish coffees (food is very important). We asked the waiter to purchase a souvenir mug. Eventually....we understood none were available that night...after explaining we were leaving for Australia very soon...he hurried away and we saw him cleaning out a dirty mug...which he presented to us. We popped them in our new leather bags (purchased earlier that day) and scuttled out into the cold. The people on the next table were giving us the thumbs up and thought it was fantastic. We are sure there were many requests for mugs after we left.
We also got to try these biscuits (? name) like shortbread with caramel condensed milk in the middle. The coffee also had condensed milk at the bottom - sugar not really required! At breakfast they serve small portions (like jam) of condensed milk which you have like caramel on crossaints.....we now know why they like to tango (to keep the weight off!)
Next stop Baroliche
(PS: Photos very difficult to upload in short amounts of time)
