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Buenos Aires
We arrived from Puerto Iguazo to a somewhat cooler evening in Buenos Aires having travelled south a good way.
Our B&B wasn´t far from the domestic airport so very shortly we had ditched our bags and were having a steak meal.
The following day was a Sunday so we headed out to the look around. Our accommodation was close to loads of shopping in Palermo Vejio. The stores were only just starting to open but the initial glances were almost too much for Laura to comprehend. After the hyperventilating had stopped and I had administered a sedative, we begin to approach the stupid number of handbag, shoe and clothes stores at a speed nearly as tiring as an aerobics class.
To say Buenos Aires is a slick city is an understatement. It is quite confusing to go from Brazil and to what feels and looks for the most part like a European City. There is a strong cafe culture and style oozes from the cracks.
Over the time of our stay we basically spent the time wandering around or sitting at cafes people watching. We inevitablely ended up covering some serious ground so were pretty tired at the end of the day.
Highlights included the Ricoletta cemetery and the Evita museum. The cemetery is where the rich and famous are buried and they definitely know how to build shrines for themselves. Some are practically chapels!
Also headed to the reputed the best steak restaurant in the city- it didn't disappoint. The steaks ordered were massive. Laura sensibly went for a smaller steak and a half order. Mine was the biggest steak I had ever seen. To get an idea think of a snake eating something larger than it´s head. They provide loads of different tiny portions of potato or capsicum or beetroot which while tasty leaves room for the large steak you are eating. We had some beautiful wine and the atmosphere was great - really memorable evening.
One further note for NZers was the large number of old ford falcons driving around. Big old creaking cars from the 70´s. Weird to see outside of NZ or Aussie.
Buenos Aires was seriously a cool city to check out and we had a ball. So the next stop is Patagonia - vastly different from our current location.
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