I don't think I can express with words the excitement of me arriving to Buenos Aires...again, I was expecting seeing people dancing tango in the streets, I was expecting to eat amazing food and, as predicted by my friends, I was going to fall in love with a tango dancer and live with him happily ever after! :)
I also had planned not to move from the city for a month, and spend time learning tango, joining a painting school and just enjoying the city before going back to London...
For all these reasons I had asked Sam (my friend from London moved to BA 4 years ago) to help me finding an apartment to stay for a month.
It all looked amazingly planned, including Sam having found a place at Brie's in Recoleta - one of the poshest and safest neighbourhood in in the city...
Except that everything changed! :)
So, after having kind of settled at Brie's place...lovely big house in a very cool area, but after a little while I started to feel a bit uncomfortable.
When I arrived in BA I got in touch with Ben, an English guy met in Auckland...despite my willingness to relax, I still needed to get connected with other travellers. Ben and I went exploring the city a bit; from la Casa Rosada, to San Telmo, to Plaza de Mayo...we crossed the streets, had food in San Telmo...talked about the last month of travelling stories and had fun!
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| Photo by Maria Teresa Salvati |
So, I went with him and his friends...we were all very excited!! They had heard about Jesus raising at the sunset and at specific times of the day for a very special moment. It was surreal and I must say the border between sacred and profane was really blurred.
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| Photo by Maria Teresa Salvati |
In all fairness with Buenos Aires, though, stakes and Malbec were sublime!...ah, and the people I met, and the artistic predisposition of the city, fantastic!
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| Photo by Maria Teresa Salvati |
2 comments:
Have you been to Plaza Dorrego? If you haven´t, do so. When you get there, the first thing to do is take a walk around, visiting the many antique shops that line the streets.
Then grab a table in the plaza, order a beer and a glass of wine, and watch the talented tango dancers perform, interspersed with street musicians of varying quality, jugglers, rif raff (harmless) and excellent people watching in general.
For the price of a beer and a copa of vino (and a couple 10 peso notes into the passed hat of the tango dancers) it is a great way to spend an afternoon on vacation.
Don´t rent an apartment in buenos aires there, do it in Palermo, you have all the means of transport to get everywhere and it is nicer!
Thanks for the tips Carla...next time I go, I'll make sure to try all that!
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