Buenos Aires

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After a quick trip to the Brazilian side of the falls for a more panoramic view we got a very bumpy plane to Buenos Aires and spent a great week there seeing the sights and doing what Portenos (people from BA) do.

The city is divided into Barrios (neighbourhoods) so we looked at the govt. buildings in the centre, admired the brightly coloured wooden houses (but ignored the Maradona lookalike) in La Boca, checked out the street tango in San Telmo and visited Evita´s grave during a lightning storm in the spooky Recoleta cemetery.

But Buenos Aires is as much about being there as the sights so we whiled away the hours in coffee houses, enjoyed delicious steak and Malbec, caught a Tango show and went to see River Plate play Rosario - a senstional 3-3 draw with a River equaliser 11 minutes into injury time, this caused a near riot amongst the away players and fans with seats being ripped up and thrown onto the fortunately empty stand below. Even Clare enjoyed the football but will not be asking for a season ticket for a UK club when she gets home.

Sam and Wendy were also in BA and it was fantastic to see them again. We all went out to celebrate Andy´s birthday - it was a brilliant evening although after 3 months of early nights getting home at 6am meant very little was accomplished on the Tuesday.

From BA we have moved via Rosario (the birthplace of Che) onto Villa General Belgrano - a bizarrely German town in the mountains where they are having their very own Octoberfest - more on that next time.

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Photos

Football in BA
The River Plate fans in the 75,000 seater stadium at the start of their home game against Rosario

The Pink Palace, BA
where Evita used to address the crowds

Tango in BA
an afternoon coffee in San Telmo was enlivened by the surprise appearance of a couple of Tango (ers?)

32 today
Andy celebrates his birthday with Clare, Sam and Wendy

Rosario
we walked from the city (in the distance)