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Our last long distance bus of our whole trip brought us to Buenos Aires in 19 hours. Despite having good seats we arrived feeling very unrefreshed as the air conditioning had been malfunctioning and had blown us with superheated air for parts of the journey. With the relief that we were done with buses we caught the metro to our hostel in the middle class suburb of Palermo and were glad that we could get into our room so early.
In anticipation for eating huge quantities of some of the best steak that Argentina has to offer we headed to a vegetarian cafe for lunch - Katy made me do it! Here we stocked up on salads before reading our friend Mike's blog which listed his favourite meat eateries/restaurants in Buenos Aires. With number 2 being just a block away from our hostel we knew where we were going for dinner. That sorted we spent the afternoon wandering Palermo ducking in and out of cool clothing shops to escape the rain. My shoes are looking very worn by this point but I seem to have bigger feet than is catered for here but Katy succeed in finding two new T-shirts. There was a small market in the square and clothes shops were set, up for the day, in a couple of bars. This meant that shoppers could have a beer while browsing - neat. With the rain getting heavier we dashed back to the hostel for the rest of the afternoon.
At 7pm we crossed over the street and waited in line outside the La Cabrera steakhouse. 7 is incredibly early to eat in Buenos Aires, where families with kids reportably eat at 11pm on a school night, but we were there for 'Happy Hour' where everything is 40% off. This makes the (apparently) '17th best restaurant in Latin America' more affordable. We ordered a 600g rib eye to share and were very happy with a bottle of red, a side of chips and 9 other little sauces and sides that arrived with it. It was good to have great steak again :-)
The next morning we caught a flight up north to see the Iguazú falls for a few days from where we would return to Buenos Aires for our final days in South America.
Simon
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