We're staying in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, it seems to be the place where all the good restaurants and shops are. We've established a routine during our time here. We usually get up around 10am, meet up with Az and Mike, go out to a "trainning" breakfast that consists of fruit with an international flag, yogurt and cereal, wheat bread with cream cheese and orange juice or coffee. AND it only costs $5. Afterwards, we decide on what we feel like doing. Sometimes we'll go our separate ways, sometimes we'll stick together. We've gone to flea markets, parks, movies, Recoleta cemetery, and shopping. We'll always work our schedule around breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Argentinians eat dinner very late. Restaurants will close after 4pm-8pm for siesta time. That's when we take our naps, refresh ourselves with a shower, since we're usually so sweaty by that time.
We have our usual restaurants that we go that have been recommended to us by Mike's cousins Tom and Maya who have been living here for 1.5 years. Our favorites have been Los Cholas an Argentinian restaurant and Salgados an Italian restaurant. We've been to both places 3 times in 9 days. The people who work there are really great, and make me feel incredibly comfortable and at home. Except last night at Los Cholas it was so hot that we were sweating profusely and had to ice ourselves periodically in order to maintain some sort of comfort. There was a point where I had to put ice under my headband in order to stay cool, and Azure started rubbing ice on Rob's chest, which I had to reciprocate by rubbing ice on Mike's chest. Hilarity ensued.
Tonight Rob leaves. :( I'm very sad. We've had so much fun, and I'm really not ready for him to leave, but I know that he must, so what else can I say.
Azure, Mike, and I are leaving tonight as well to go to Iguazu Falls by bus. It's going to be an 18 hour bus ride, we'll stay for 3 days, and then bus back, then head south to make friends with the penguins. I'm really excited and ready to leave the city since it's so freakin hot here.
Finally, here are some pics:
Recoleta Cemetery, Eva Peron is here, but we couldn't find her:
Salgados:
Las Cholas, when it was super hot:
Bomba del Tiempo; beer as big as your head for 5 pesos = $1.66 and drums and hippies:
Tigre, we took the train up north, got on a boat thinking it was a boat tour, was asked where we were going, we said, we don't know, then found out it was actually a water taxi dropping people off at their homes or at resorts.
Foodies:
2 comments:
daaang. look at that food! you need to be telling us what each thing is!!!
it looks so nice and sunny there. you look tan and relaxed with your orange computer watch and turquoise headband!
Well, at that time it was really hot. Personally I think that there are better restaurants in San Telmo and Recoleta, but there is a lot of good restaurantes in this town, and I have not tried them all:-) Hope your enjoying the trip to the south, and hope you can write a little about the trip to Iguazu too.
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