Day to day life in La Plata

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Life starts at a leisurely pace for most, with 10am starts for work common, although some schools do have early mornings sessions. -Breakfasts are a coffee and biscuit or pastry such as a croissant or facturas, yummy little tiny things with dulce de leche on the top or jam or fruit.

You shop for what you need on a daily basis in your neighbourhood little shops. So there are bakeries, butchers, fish shops and fruit and vege shops in each little area. Meat is around 8 pesos for 2 people, a bag of 6 fresh bread rolls is 2 pesos, and fruit and veges are really cheap, bag full of bits and pieces for 5 pesos. Your local corner store slices your ham and cheese for you, so big supermarkets are not as abundant. They are there for all those bits and pieces but the reliance on them is less than Australia.

People are smartly dressed almost within the French style of buying one or two classic pieces and adding a scarf, a necklace or a top here and there to make the outfit live on.

Around 1pm most shops close, people head home for a cooked lunch and siesta. They all reopen around 4pm and most people seem to work until around 8pm or so.

Then its a cooked meal around 10pm and bed around midnight.

The pace is not as frantic, family and friends are a focus.

Because La Plata is a university town there are lots of bicycles, people walking, people playing in parks, and dog shit everywhere. There seems to be lots of dogs who seem quite ownerless just wandering around, walking at night is not on if you have poor night vision.

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Photos

The local fruit and vege shop
really nice and fresh and tasty food which is ridiculously cheap

Footpaths
a lot of the paths are like this and more are covered with dog shit, and some are nice and smooth, obviously common sense abounds here and no one sues anyone if they trip over

Delicious bakery
Some days you can walk in and order but other days you order through the grill. All good for bread can do that OK in Spanish but asking for pastries this morning was very hit and miss

Childrens plaground
In each plaza there are playgrounds, a lot of children are apartment dwellers so need this for exercise, no softfall just gravel and dirt

Bicycles
Huger variety of them here from this old sort to the latest

Plaza hot dog stand
In each plaza is this area to sit and eat and pass the time

Popular meeting spot
People sit on the lawns drink mate and enjoy life