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So another short blog with only a few photos.
Wednesday brought about a quieter day for us and we copied all our photos on to cd and then ventured to the post office and I sent my first parcel of the trip home fingers crossed it now arrives. Although after 12 days I believe the postcards from Brazil have started dropping on doorsteps....
The rest of Wednesday was spent doing some more sightseeing and hunting out tango shows and lessons. After a lot of hunting and asking around Sharon decided that she wanted to see a show at Cafe Tortoni and do a lesson there as well she also decided on going to see the Tango Porteno show. Whilst I wanted to see a show I drew the line at watching two as I am not that big a fan and as for doing a tango lesson it is a well known fact that Brimelows cannot dance so I was steering well clear.
We paid a visit to Cafe Tortini which is the oldest cafe in Buenos Aires and well known for its tango after a food and drink stop Sharon booked her ticket to see their show
that night. Later that night as she headed off to see the show I decided to brave it to the cinema. This trip is all about firsts and this is the first time I have ever been to the cinema on my own. Having bought the English Buenos Aires Herald I decided that I had two films to choose from so went with The Reader (El Lector). Over here they show all films in their original format and just add Spanish subtitles. I did however have a bit of a brain melt down when watching the adverts as they showed a trailer for a French film so I was listening to French (which I can understand in a fashion and keep trying to speak over here rather than Spanish and I blame my time in Quebec for this!), reading in Spanish and thinking in English...... I enjoyed the film albeit it didn't leave me in the cheeriest of moods.
Thursday was another chilled day whereby we jumped on the subway and headed over to Recoletta and walked through the botanical gardens which were very poor and I think that Dads garden is more botanical than their effort. We then
went to the Evita museum. I will admit to finding the museum fascinating and whilst I am aware that they only portrayed the good side of Eva Peron and I am aware of all the controversy that surrounded her and her husband you have to give credit to the difference that they made to the poor, orphans and elderly of this country and a lot of her legacy is still in place today which can only be a good thing!
After the museum we headed down to the docks in the centre and wandered around one of the old sailing ship museums. At this point it was time for Sharon and I to part ways again for a few hours as she went to her tango lesson. I walked around and found a park next to one of the palaces so sat in the sun for awhile reading a paper and just enjoying the atmosphere. I then headed to one of the large shopping malls and did some window shopping.
Our last night in Buenos Aires was a visit to the Tango Porteno show. So we got dressed up (well as dressed up as a backpacker can be!)
and headed off to the show. We had splashed out and gone for the meal and show ticket. The meal was amazing!!!!! I ended up having mozzarella and parma ham rolled up together with a salad and then steak. I can openly state that I had the biggest steak ever - it was the size of half the plate and over an inch thick. I then had a chocolate mousse to finish. All this was accompanied with free drink so I decided to try out the wine and have to say that there were no complaints about it other than it was slightly sweeter than I usually like. The show was very professional and impressive. They had 6 couples dancing, a male and female singer and a 10 piece band/orchestra.
A quick note on the food front I have to say that the meal at Tango Porteno was lovely however once again it highlighted to me the fact that Brazil and Argentina do not like fruit and vegetables and there is a noticeable lack of them with meals. In Brazil we found that for breakfast was often fresh fruit, cheese, ham, bread rolls and cake. The fresh fruit in
a morning therefore made up for the lack of vegetables with other meals. However Argentinian breakfast leave something to be desired. It is often medialunas (a sweet tasting croissant), hard toasted (often stale) bread, dulce de leche (its like condensed milk that has been bolied till it thickens and gets a carmel look and taste) or jam. I will openly state that I am not a fan of dulce de leche as it is too sweet and sickly but nor am I a fan of condensed milk which the taste reminds me of - Mum you would like it I'm just not sure you would want it for breakfast!! Needless to say I always knew that meat was a huge part of the diet over here to which I do not have a problem but I am craving a few more fruit and veg in my diet.
The next part of this trip is a flight down to Ushuaia - the bottom of the world and winter!!
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rachel
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Come on Andy - This is a trip for firsts so you should have had a tango lesson (For the last 3 Thursdays running i have managed to go to street dancing classes so you can manage to have 1 tango lesson!!!) Trip still looks super :)