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Published: September 18th 2006
Buenos Aires
La Caleta, La BocaWe´ve just spent the last five days in Buenos Aires and have done a ridiculous amount of walking. Due to all the steak and wine we are consuming (I use the "Royal we"!) a) we cant afford public transport, and b) we are trying to burn off the calories. Its seems to be working though as we both have a lost a fair amount of weight. So much so that I´m thinking off writing a book when I get home: "How to gorge yourself on Steak, Chocolates and red wine for three weeks and lose a stone!" I know the ladies out there will be interested, so send your preorder deposits to my publishers (Mum and Dad for now!).
Buenos Aires has been really nice (and cheap!) but we wouldn´t put it on our list of must-see destinations. I guess its just another city of the world to tick off the list I suppose, but it has been nice to unpack all our stuff again.
Our first day, we went to San Telmo, a suburb in the inner city. Its a bit of a bohemian hang-out and a good place to catch a free tango show. We decided to
go here as the alternative Tango option is a restaurant/cabaret type production which costs about $60 per person, so the free tango was always going to come up trumps. In retrospect, I dont remember much about any of the shows as I was too busy gagging at the sight of two pensioners cavorting in the name of entertainment. I dont care how "sexy" a dance is, it doesn´t give any 70 year old woman the right to wear a skirt slashed to the hip (we could almost see her boobs bobbing beneath her skirt! UUUrrgghhh!) And if that wasn´t enough, there was a fifty year old woman charging money to have her photo taken in an outfit that would of made a hooker blush! I would have taken a sneaky one but she looked the sort to have thrown her shoes at me if she´d caught me.
Recoleta Cemetary was next on our hit list. I cant imagine any cemetary in the world can match this place. I mean where else can you find the final resting place of a well-to-do chiropodist being twice the size of George VI´s tomb??? It was a truly bizarre experience walking down the
The "Tango"
....was about as sexy as watching Dot Cotton in a lapdancing club! "streets" of tombs, some of which you can peer into and just see coffins lying there. In others, there were little seats where living relatives would come in and visit and give the place a little spring clean, wiping down Great Auntie Rosa´s casket etc. I reckon it would make great marketing for the next "Mr Muscle" advert: " Loves the jobs you hate!" Mmmmmm.
All in all, we´ve just relaxed here. Had some lie ins, done a bit of walking and just absorbed the atmosphere of the city. Its been a nice couple of days, but the devil makes work for idle hands, so off on "another" 20 hour bus trip to Iguazu Falls.
P.s Thanks to everyone who is leaving comments for us. Sorry for not replying to you all, but we both really appreciate everything you leave us.
Lots of love
Stu and Nads
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Hello both of you, glad to see it's all going well, hope you took lots of pictures of those tango dancers, I like the sound of that woman!!