Ready, steady, Tango!

After an uneventful day the day before we prise ourselves out of bed and head to La Boca, the home of tango - it is where tango originated! Hope theres no Borats there!
We get there and its a really beautiful place, everything is really colourful. All the buildings are painted bright colours and its just a sea of colour, with lots of little market stalls set up, tango dancers everywhere and lots of people vying for your attention to get you into their bar to watch a free tango show!
We go for a little walk down the main street called caminito, probably one of the most important streets in the history of tango!, and are greeted by lots of artist stalls selling pictures of La Boca. After a nosey around we head off the main street and head to the La Boca football club stadium. La Boca football team is managed by none other than Diego ´hand of god´Maradonna, and there are pictures and statues of him all over the joint! The stadium itself is pretty grim, especially from the outside, the inside isn´t much better either, with a massive perplex screen separating rival fans - apparently it can get pretty nasty during a match, especially if La Boca aren´t winning!!
After our little whirlwind stadium tour we head back to the main street, happier to be in a safer place, La Boca comes with many warnings, its not ht eplace to go after dark put it that way!! Back on the main strip we go for a hot chocolate and watch a free tango show and are serenaded by two Argentinian swooners! Bless him for trying, hovering round the restaurant is an old guy, who keeps asking us to tango, as this is la creme de la creme of tango we decline his kind offer - we don´t want to show up any of the professionals!!!

We rounded off our day by heading to one of the locla night spots - yep at a ridiculous hour in the morning!! Only one problem with tonight though, as its election time and they´ve been counting the votes today alcohol is not being served!!! We always know how to pick the bank holidays!

Sunday Markets
As every intelligble traveller knows, sundays are best reserved for markets and today was no exception, with markets in Recoletta and San Telmo!
We head first to San Telmo to have a look around, this place is famous for all its antique shops - theres hundreds of them - and then we start the bargain hunting, David eat your heart out!! Few hours laters and a few pesos lighter we head back to parliament square and see the presidents residence, this is actually the place where Eva Peron used to give speeches from the balcony! We jump into a taxi and head to Recoletta market, its even bigger than San Telmo, busier and tad priceier so we don´t spend too long there!

As tonights our last night in BA we´ve made reservations for the snazziest restaurant in town - ok the best place to get a steak! Get a taxi there and sit down to the biggest piece of meat i´ve ever seen served on a plate in my life! In actual fact it comes out on a chopping board its so huge! Quite a way to end BA wouldn´t you say!

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