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We’d finally arrived: Buenos Aires, Paris of South America. We found a place in San Telmo, an older area of the city not far from down town. The whole place is full of Georgian buildings with crumbling molding and balconies of overgrown house plants. And the streets are cobbled.

Good food in "Good Air"

GringoAndGringa
2006-02-18 14:48:18

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We’d finally arrived: Buenos Aires, Paris of South America. We found a place in San Telmo, an older area of the city not far from down town. The whole place is full of Georgian buildings with crumbling molding and balconies of overgrown house plants. And the streets are cobbled.

The first thing we did was go to Calle Florida, where all the shopping is. To Mike’s infinite delight, there was also a Subway. I must say, that we did buy a lot of shoes while in Buenos Aires, and now our bags are very heavy. You can get very nice stuff in Buenos Aires, and it’s all about half the price we would pay at home, so almost impossible to resist.

On Saturdays, there is a craft market outside the cemetery in Recoleta (a fancy part of town) and I got up early in order to be sure of seeing it. Unfortunately, it turned out that we were being evicted from our hotel that day, and had to find a new one. Ok no problem. Then we wandered for ages trying to find the right bus and it was very much the afternoon by the time we got there. The market was
still going though, and I bought more shoes.

We also visited the cemetery, which has many famous people, most importantly Eva Peron. The cemetery was pretty great, all the tombs being above ground and some very old and crumbling with little plants all over them. Also, there was a thunderstorm, so it was extra spooky. Evita’s grave was pretty fancy black marble and seems to be of her parents’ rather than here husband’s family. Each family has a chapel-like thing where several deceased family members are stored together. We had to wait our turn to take a picture.

After that, we went to a movie at the big fancy movie theater (Harry Potter, what else?). It must have had twenty screens and had shows until 2:30am. Even though it was afternoon, there was a large lineup and about eight cashers working. They let you pick your seats when you buy the ticket, very novel for us. We went and had some ...