Day 300
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Whoohooo...we´re onto Day 300..amazing that we´ve been away from home that long! And here we are thinking of all the places we´d like to go when we return in a couple of years!! We´d love to go to Central America next time..and do the trek in Nepal....yes, we still have dreams...and no, we won´t be bored when we get back to wonderful Perth because we will have time to reflect on this wonderful adventure..as well as to plan our next one!!!
We´re still in Buenos Aires, and loving it. We´re really enjoying our apartment and spent practically the whole day just lapping it up...and catching up on our laundry and cooking up food in our kitchen! The only thing is...utensils are limited...so i had to cook porridge in a teapot this morning..but that´s just a minor thing...(I wonder what our pumpkin will be liked cooked in the teapot?). Pity there´s no microwave..
But! No time for quibbling. Today we headed out about 3pm (the place seems to wake up about that time!) to Florida Street where life was buzzing as usual...and watched life go by there...
Then we headed to Plaza de Mayo where there are so many wonderful buildings...and where Eva Peron did her famous and empassioned speeches....
It´s such a busy place down there....and everytime we go there i always feel a sense of exitement for some reason..i can´t explain it..but can only liken it to going into central perth and seeing familiar buildings and being amongst the hum of the place. We´re truly getting so familiar with the Plaza de Mayo and FLorida St that it´s becoming like the city we go to from home (san telmo, where we´re staying).
Every now and again we get a soft tap on our arm...pretty little girls in raggy clothes, usually with a baby on their hip, asking for some pesos...it´s so heartwrenching..and difficult to refuse. My heart really goes out to these girls...they look so forlorn and desperate..and to be beggars at that young age is so tragic.
Always, at about 5pm, the indian pan flutes start playing which is nothing short of magical...we boutht their cd today...for 15 pesos..which is about $5 Aus.
A little indian boy in the troupe...in Florida Street...
And NOW: The highlight of the day...
Was our Parilla adventure.....to El de Nivel steakhouse (parilla) for a lomo (steak). It´s an old colonial building in San Telmo..and a parilla that we´d heard cooks the most succulent and wonderful steak. We ordered medium cooked bife de lomo (grilled tenderloin steak) and it WAS the best steak we have ever eaten. How they cooked it perfectly the whole way through so it was like fairy floss to cut was nothing short of miraculous! It was very yummy!!! And so was the simple salad and red wine.
Such a simple meal..that was so satisfying and perfect. We´re heard Argentina cooks the best steak. Now we KNOW it does! Beautiful!
One thing we´ve noticed since Christmas, when all the streets were deserted....is that the streets are once again populated and crowded...
Buenos Aires has 13.6 million people..and today..we noticed it!!!!
We headed home after our dinner...
VERY HAPPY.
If nothing else..and there has been a lot, the steak here in BA..is to DIE FOR!
I wonder how Mum and Annie are going in Esperance.....I miss mum´s emails!!!!!!!
Awwww....
