Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Sightseeing in Buenos Aires

Friday 9 March
After a decent sleep in I set off to do some sight seeing and headed for the Casa Rosada - the pink government house from which Evita, Maradona, Galteri and Peron would address the crowds in the Plaza De Mayo below. There would be no 4pm tour due to the renovations taking place, so I headed back through the plaza, taking care to avoid the anti-Bush demonstrations, into another plaza to find some breakfast and bumped into Tim who I´d met on the bus from the airport. We had some lunch and shared a bottle of wine, then wandered about and made plans to see a tango show in the evening.

The tango show at 3 Billares was great, 4 very good dancers, sexy dresses and 2 extraordinary singers. Somehow, Tim thought we were on a date so he didn´t hang around for very long once I´d made it quite clear that it wasn´t. I was rather confused by this, I´d definately not flirted with him - I spent more time eyeing off the waiters than anything else! On the walk home I got some nice pictures of the city, the architecture and street scapes are lovely, and I felt very safe as there was a policeman on most corners.

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