Day 120: Busy San Telmo amidst Sunday shutdown What with a slightly erratic sleeping pattern which tends to involve me getting more sleep in the afternoons that I do at night, the boundaries delineating one day from another seem to be getting somewhat blurred. Nevertheless, I got up this morning, and after a rather nice free breakfast which included some Argentinian-style pastries covered in dulce de leche (a thin, very sweet caramel), headed down to San Telmo. It being a Sunday, pretty much everything in the centre of town was shut, including the supermarkets, cafes, phonebooths and kiosks. With traffic scarce on the road, and fewer people around than had been the case at three in the morning, it was like walking through a ghost town until I reached San Telmo, the city´s Bohemian quarter. From
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