So, here we are in Argentina, Buenos Aries no less and
here’s me making my first addition to our blog and making apologies for not sending
out the link before.
Earth Dance was certainly an interesting place and I may add
some retrospective thoughts at a later date but for now we are in the home of
Tango.
We’ve been here for about a week now and for me anyway, only
now just about set up.
Finding a place we were happy with for a reasonable price
has been difficult and although we had help from a number of contacts,
ultimately, we had to sort it out more or less ourselves.
However, we are here now, in a family run Hostel with a nice
room, a clean bathroom and access to a good kitchen. That last one is going to
be a god send. Eating out here is not that expensive, at least relative to the
UK, but it soon mounts up. The main thing though is the food on offer. Coming
from a mainly vegetarian time at earth dance to here is a bit of a shock to the
system even for me, it is truly a carnivores paradise.
The big thing here is the parellia, a charcoal grill on
which most of the meat is cooked and I have to say that it’s brilliantly
done, both stakes and chicken are nicely
caramelised on the outside while being juicy in the middle, I’m getting hungry
just thinking about it! Vegetables and salads are another thing though. Usually
on the menu they are very much of an also ran, unless you order carefully and
are very specific. Other good things to have here are the fruit juices, freshly
squeezed and very tasty. So It’s not necessarily an unhealthy diet, if you can
manage to leave out the carbs (they serve bread rolls and spready cheese with
each meal, and potatoes, usually fried in some way) what you have is your basic
Atkins diet, mind you I’ve just done a quick web search and maybe the Atkins
diet ain’t so good!
Whether it’s good for you or not, I had possibly the best
steak of my life the other night and it cost under a tenner, two of us had a
good meal in a posh place with silver service and it came to under 150 pasos, that’s
about £25.00.
Anyway enough on the delights of the parllia, there’s a link
below to the website of our hostel and maybe next time we will explore the joys
of empanadas and I can give you a few impressions of the Tango World
championships which are going on right now, or maybe not!
Cheers,
R.
http://www.residencialezica.com.ar/ingles/instalaciones_in.html
