Day 320
San Telmo, BA Argentina
Arriving in San Telmo, the antique hub of the world..with it´s cobblestone streets, houses with iron ballustrade balconies and wrought iron street lamps was just magical.
I love this place!!!
Going back to our old, once grand hotel, with it´s peeling walls and high ceilings, bathroom with bidet and open shower was bliss.
San Telmo has so much history. Since we first arrived here for Christmas we´re come to know the restaurants, the little street cafe´s, grocery shops and vegetable stores.
The history actually is quite colourful. It was once a neighbourhood that the wealthy inhabited. But...in 1871´Yellow Fever hit San Telmo and all the wealthy took off to the North of BA! It ravaged the area...
Later, it became home to foreign immigrants and artists opened their studios here. We took so many pics of the colourful art studios! There´s definitely a bohemian spirit here (which is why i love it so much) and so much going on...lots of antique shops and stalls..music, cafe´s and bars.
Just up from where we ´live´is a park called Parque Lezama which is where Greg and I spent our anniversary. It´s about 4 hectares of park and trees..and it has a Nacional Historical museum...but it´s was closed when we went there. Sculptor patio is another place in the park....
So peaceful and tranquil. For lunch we had bread rolls and agua minerale com gas! So decadent! But..we were waiting for our delicious dinner..at our FAV...Des Nivel.
More about San Telmo. The buses here are like no other in the world! They hiss...it´s weird. Greg says they´ve got some sort of hissing, squeaking release valve on their brake compresser that whistles....we notice it over and over again..since there are SO many buses hissing up Bolivar Street where we´re staying!
Dinner was sooooo yummy........chorizo for entree, bife de lomo (yes, we love it!) assortment of ensalada and abundance of vino...and Dom Pedro for dessert! This dessert is icecream..soaked in whiskey..and dosed with walnuts..ohlala.
We had a beautiful anniversary.....We re confirmed our love and commitment and decided if each of us can truly love being together for 24/7 for a year...we must be soulmates!! I could go on forever about this beautiful relationship..but i´ll keep that for the sanctity of our own lives :-) But...i will say, we said verbal poems to each other, over dinner, and we were both reduced to snivelling romantics!
Greg also gave me a very special Inca Rose heart necklace..and it´s so beautiful. Inca Rose is the stone that is only found here in Argentina..and that made it extremely special because we´ve found a true magic in this part of the earth.
We also bought each other patagonian polar fleeces. Ready for NZ! (no wonder we needed to post back our old stuff!)
But as for my gift to Greg...I gave him a big kiss...and and the promise of great things to come! :-)
OK enuff of that!
San Telmo also has Dorrego PLaza..and that is a place we frequent a lot...it´s close, it´s cultural..and therés always something going on..whether it´s flamenco, tango..music..or just kids and people milling around...
Such a great place - San Telmo!
