We love this town sexy dancing, great food, fantastic wine and cowboys, what more could the tired traveller want to pass a few days.
First day we went to the city cemetery and marveled at the massive crypts that the very wealthy citizens of the city built for themselves and their family, some of them are mini churches.
The area around had a lot of street performers
We did a gaucho trip yesterday to a ranch an hour outside the city, we had a ride on some horses and then a horse drawn cart that El got to drive, as she chatted up the old man driver (I thought that I was the one who chatted up the old folk) and walked around a strange museum that housed rooms kept in the style of the 1900s.
We then had a massive meat, meat and some more meat meal, that included a blood sausage that was quite strange and a tango dance at the end. Free wine was included so El and I got up at the end of the dinner and tried to show these bunch of South American show offs how dancing really is suppose to be done. (I think that we may need some lessons). We got a demonstration of the gauchos skills after lunch, this included the guys galloping towards a small hanging ring which then speared with a pencil, kind of jousting on a small scale. If they get a ring the old pervs gives it to a lady in exchange for a kiss, Of course El got two rings as they all wanted a go on her lol.
That night we went to the up-and-coming dockside bar area of the city and munched into an all-you-can-eat sushi meal for 7 quid each and only just managed to waddle home.
The city has been a bit quiet at the weekend as the national elections were on and the sale of alcohol was banned, by the way the new president is a Cristina Kirchner, wife of Argentina's outgoing president, Argentina's first elected female president. On the news an old guy said "outside the house we all act macho but inside the house the females rules anyway" which made me laugh.
We have also booked a full couple of weeks in Argentina, we are off to the wine region (rude not too) in a city called Mendoza that strangely is not that far from our starting pointing in South America... Santiago in Chile, which is just over the mountains and the border of course.
We are booked on a luxury bus tonight that serves champagne so that should be nice and plan to visit a winery, the mountains and maybe an adventure activity.
P.S Only three weeks to go...OMG
P.P.S also as a side note, we both did some Interneting a few days ago and looked at jobs and El had has some job interest from her old company and I just got invited to an interview in Maidenhead, which made us feel so much better about coming home.
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