Buenos Aires

Sunday was a warm sunny day, and began our exploration of BA. Started with a walk down to Plaza de Mayo and the Casa Rosa (Pink House) official home of the Argentine president. Got as free tour (in Spanish) of the Casa Rosa. Very impressive. After that we hit the San Temlo Sunday market. It started just of the plaze and went for miles. Everything was for sale, also had free tango dancers performing. Spent a good 3 or 4 hours in the market. In the afternoon we went to Calle Florida- one of the main shopping malls in BA. It also went for miles and everything on sale. Evan and Karla would enjoy shopping there. Toured one of the shopping complexes (that had a ceiling mural), very American. Had a great piece of cake (well a fruit tarte to be exact). It was a 2 for 1 deal (so we both had a drink and piece of fruit tart for $23 pesos - say around US$ 7 in total or NZ$9.
In the evening we walked up de Mayo to the Congress building had ate. Once again it was very reasonable (about $30 for two meals and a 1/2 bottle of wine.

A great first day in BA.

Monday. Today we enjoyed travelling by subway. Got out to San Martin and had a look around, then we walked down to the Retiro Bus terminus (extremely large) and we brought our tickets ti Iguazu (tomorrow night). We went to Eva Peron's museum, had lunch at the restaurant. Then found the museum is closed on Mondays. Walked around Plaza Italia. Finally found a Japanese garden, so spent some time resting (had sore feet by now).
Today was a very sunny warm day. Got back to the B&B around 6pm. Rested and had dinner around 9.30 that night. Great ravioli. Great wine as well. Today, Lynley is sure someone tried to get into her back pants pocket on the crowded subway.

Tuesday. Visited another B&B being set up by Maggie, it will be nice once it is up and running. Today we went to La Boca (the mouth). Very interesting. The water was highly polluted, had a few rusting ship hulls lying around the place. Visited an excellent art museum. Arrived back around 4pm to pack our bags, as we leave at 7.40 pm (a 15 hour bus trip- but we a going first class - seats recline 180 degrees, serves supper and breakfast (with bubbles, wine or whiskey). Includes movies ,the lot. Looking forward to this experience.

Maggie's B&B is great. Excellent breakfast and we pretty well have free run of the place. The B&B is located in the heart of the textile district, so there are tailors shops and fabric shops every where.