We arrived here Thursday morning 10am after an overnight flight from Paris. It was 30 degrees as we stepped off the plane, quite a change from Cumbria, there is a breeze which is warm and the tempreture is like the women here sultry. Collection as arranged was great after such a long flight and we were quickly whisked by taxi to our hotel,Hotel Art in very pleasant leafy avenue only a block from the main highway through the city. We set off to explore the city lunching with office workers in a lovely resturant getting superb service and a wonderful fresh salad, I made a slight error when I ordered the iced coffee and got one with a menthal liquor in it very strong and like drinking coffee flavoured toothpaste, but Bob's freshley squeezed orange was superb. The city is chic the women stunning tanned sleek and poised and the men gorgerous. All the streeets are tree lined and the Avenues wide particularly the famous central street which is 100 meters wide and runs as far as you can see. We found lovely shady squares and a wonderful old Bunja tree. Coffee and a time relaxing was spent at the dock yard, now a marina with the old buildings now converted into areas of cafes and galleries.
Deciding we only had one night here we did the tourist thing and attended a Tango night it was far better than we had expected and we sat at a table with Argentians, Brazilians and two girls from Peru. The food was good very good crab to start sitting on a mild chilli sauce, followed by 500gram steaks and a citreon tart with wine all night and an hour half show before being taken back to our hotel at 12pm by now we had been up 44+ hours and crashed into bed.
A great breakfast the next morning lots of fresh fruit and about 8 different types of bread which Bob can't try, ahhh, before we went out for the morning visiting the modern galleries the famous city cemetrey of the great good and not so good we found a superb place to relax with coffee and apple crumle tart for an hour. A tip from us avoid the air conditioning machines on houses above they spray you with a fine spray of water.
However Bob and I have found our next job becoming proffessinal dog walkers, all over the city you see people with 10 -12 dogs on leads poodles and mastiff all marching along together orl sitting by the kerb under a tree while one is dropped off and another is collected, they don't put a paw out of place even when one group pass another.
We were having a relaxing hour luckily on the computer in the lounge when our taxi driver arrived to collect us for the tranfer to Bariloche we commnted that he was an hour early to be told that we had set our watches wrong and were in fact ment to leave immediately as we were stilll not finally pack we had a hectic 1o minutes before dashing out to the taxi, we thought the time difference 4 hours but the new female Argentinian President changed the hour on 1st January to save power and give a lighter evening so no wonder we had been shattered the night before.
