BOXING DAY IN BA!

Day 299

BOXING DAY, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

We´re still loving our apartment!

And loved making our own breakfast..which was leftover panetone and banana´s!

We arose to a beautiful morning....and we heard the noise of the streets, hum of the cars...and movement of people in adjoining apartments....

Christmas is over.

The quiet and deserted streets of yesterday are, once again, alive.

We felt safe to go out.

We did some grocery shopping...so nice doing normal domestic things! We also bumped into our neighbour who said she got our room with the balcony so that was great to hear!

So we went walking around San Telmo..and up to Puerto Madero, the new part of Buenos Aires. It was almost too new for my liking! The buildings were all apartmentised..in that there were hundreds of blocks of flats...and lots of ritzy restaurants lined up along the river.

I realised i like the old...and not the new. The old part of town has soul and feeling..and people and music and it´s not all sparkling and fake.

We walked over the Women´s Brided, named because all the streets on one side of the harbour is named after famous Argentinian women....

And then decided to take a tour (coin donation) on the ship Frigata ARA Presidente Sarmiento which was an old Argentinian Naval ship. It even had the Commander´s dog preserved in a glass case....called Lamazo!!!!

We tried to look for a restaurant and after looking at the rip off prices settled on one called ¨Fridays¨ which had good menu including seafood and dishes with picante! (chile, which i love!) Greg had a pollo dish and i settled on a pollo enchalada.....we must really love our chicken! It was really nice sitting watching the Presidente Sarmiento that was moored, permanently, on the river.

We walked back through Palermo where we bought my new jacket for the freezing El Calafate weather!! (Going there next week...Greg´s dream place to go!!!)

It was a great Boxing Day....

Apart from hearing the news from Elise, of the murder in Gero...

Which...just makes me feel so angry...

Anyway...apart from that...

Ciao....

Hope you all had a great Christmas and Boxing Day!

Love and Hugs,
xxx