More Buenos Aires
Had a lovely few days in Buenos Aires, ambling around not climbing up hills. Highlights have included:
- visit to the Boca area including walk round the stadium of the infamous Boca Juniors. Our guide must be the only person in Argentina that doesn't like football. Needless to say, she keeps that little nugget of information to herself when she's showing Boca fans round. The stadium itself is tiny. They call it La Bombonnera (eek, spelling, but it means chocolate box). Or, as our cab driver, Jose Luis Casanova, informed us, it's actually 'la gloriosa bombonnera'. You get the picture. Marv then felt it would be a good idea to talk about the hand of god and the like, Maradonna being a former Boca player. Oh, and a 'Super Dios' according to Jose Luis. Boca is gorgeous anyway, colourful and by a very smelly river. All the houses are painted in primary colours which I think stems from a tradition started by boat owners who used the leftover paint from painting their boats to do so. Went to an art gallery of Argentinian artist who painted the port a lot.
- Meal in Las Canistas, the glitzy restaurant part of town. We prefer the slightly more scruffy and funky Palermo Viejo, but the people watching was fun.
- AWESOME meal in a restaurant called Christophe back in Palermo Viejo. The BEST chocolate pudding for desert I've ever had. Then met Michelle - whom we met in Mendoza - and stayed out drinking far too late. Kir Royales and gin and tonics. Ugh.
- Saw 'Kill Bill' because, with our hangovers, the only thing we could face doing was sitting in front of a screen. Good job I'm not squeamish is all I can say. Actually quite enjoyed it - the violence is hammy rather than horrible, and you get a very vivid sense of what joy filmmaking is for Tarantino. Oh, and all the actors are GORGEOUS.
- Then went for a lovely sit down in the faded but elegant Botanical Gardens. It's very hot here.
FLight to NZ tonight. We have booked a car, bought a tent, booked a glacier walk, and a kayak trip. Organised or what? Never mind that we don't actually have a place to stay in Auckland yet...Oddly we miss out on December 20th as we cross the dateline over the Pacific. Someone tell me what happens if we miss anything.
The current plan is to spend New Year's in Christchurch.
Had a lovely few days in Buenos Aires, ambling around not climbing up hills. Highlights have included:
- visit to the Boca area including walk round the stadium of the infamous Boca Juniors. Our guide must be the only person in Argentina that doesn't like football. Needless to say, she keeps that little nugget of information to herself when she's showing Boca fans round. The stadium itself is tiny. They call it La Bombonnera (eek, spelling, but it means chocolate box). Or, as our cab driver, Jose Luis Casanova, informed us, it's actually 'la gloriosa bombonnera'. You get the picture. Marv then felt it would be a good idea to talk about the hand of god and the like, Maradonna being a former Boca player. Oh, and a 'Super Dios' according to Jose Luis. Boca is gorgeous anyway, colourful and by a very smelly river. All the houses are painted in primary colours which I think stems from a tradition started by boat owners who used the leftover paint from painting their boats to do so. Went to an art gallery of Argentinian artist who painted the port a lot.
- Meal in Las Canistas, the glitzy restaurant part of town. We prefer the slightly more scruffy and funky Palermo Viejo, but the people watching was fun.
- AWESOME meal in a restaurant called Christophe back in Palermo Viejo. The BEST chocolate pudding for desert I've ever had. Then met Michelle - whom we met in Mendoza - and stayed out drinking far too late. Kir Royales and gin and tonics. Ugh.
- Saw 'Kill Bill' because, with our hangovers, the only thing we could face doing was sitting in front of a screen. Good job I'm not squeamish is all I can say. Actually quite enjoyed it - the violence is hammy rather than horrible, and you get a very vivid sense of what joy filmmaking is for Tarantino. Oh, and all the actors are GORGEOUS.
- Then went for a lovely sit down in the faded but elegant Botanical Gardens. It's very hot here.
FLight to NZ tonight. We have booked a car, bought a tent, booked a glacier walk, and a kayak trip. Organised or what? Never mind that we don't actually have a place to stay in Auckland yet...Oddly we miss out on December 20th as we cross the dateline over the Pacific. Someone tell me what happens if we miss anything.
The current plan is to spend New Year's in Christchurch.
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