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Buenos Aries, the home of Tango and Steak!

ARGENTINA | Monday, 7 September 2009 | Views [484]

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

 

 

 

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