Monday, Monday

We walked long and delightfully to a travel agency this AM on the 3rd floor of an elegant old gargoyle encrusted building where a French woman, Priscilla, booked tickets for us on a day tour next week to an estancia (gaucho ranch). Another long walk to the congress building got us on to a Hop On/Hop Off, doubledecker bus for a tour of the city.



Interesting Building Picture Taken From Bus


Walkway across river.

We saw every magnificent bit of historical granite: statues, plazas, fountains, and bridges, then gardens and parks and barrios (neighborhoods) until hunger forced us off the bus and, near the cemetery (Recoleta) where all the finest Portenos (as the Buenos Aires folks are called) rest, we ate. ...and drank a bottle of Malbec (vino tinto)...and walked some more...until we could ride ... on the SUBTE (soobtay, as the subway is called) back across town (to walk some more) to find a recommended milonga (as the tango halls are called) and sat, and watched, and avoided eye contact... lest Janell be lured into the arms of a milonguero. (Portenos do believe the Tango to be Argentino's greatest gift to the world.)



Scene in Tango Hall
Tomorrow we hope to go back to the cemetery to see Evita's grave site and possibly the city's Biological Gardens and Japanese Gardens. There are so many interesting things to see here that we easily get off track with our daily plans.

Larry and Janell


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Location:Lavalle,Buenos Aires,Argentina