Day Two - Raining Gatos y Perros
Day two was about as uneventful as day one. Our quest to book a show at the famed Teatro Colon brought us relatively close to where we had spend the previous day. We took a bit more time seeing the iconical obelisk downtown, attempted to book a ferry to Uruguay (which we decided to nix)..and eventually ducked into a cafe for a long, long lunch while rain dumped down on the city. We had dressed for the heat and humidity we had experienced the previous day. After we got bored with our extended lunch, we ventured outside to catch an available cab. That available cab never came - but the cold wind sure did! It was cold as heck.
We ducked into a mountain gear shop to escape the rain. The employees there spoke English fluently - which is a major rarity here. They advised us on the remainder of our trip, the Patagonia part - and gave us some of their mate - which led to the most amusing event of the day.
Though he was fluent, the employee accidentally told Gregg to blow into the mate (which essentially is like telling someone to blow into a straw instead of suck). Gregg did this, and proceeded to blow hot water and Herba Mate (loose tea leaves) on some jackets for sale. Highly funny.
We returned to our neighborhood and strained to find a restaurant that opened up before 8 pm. They just don't really exist here! These people eat dinner at the most ridiculous hours! Even at 8 or 8:30, the restaurants are generally empty!
The only decent restaurant that was open was a pricey one (We haven't found food, or much else for that matter, to be as cheap as we had been expecting).
The whole experience was fantastic!(it is hard for me to eat well as a vegetarian, and as someone who can't understand all items on a Spanish only menu)...With wine, beer, T-bone for Gregg, some pasta dish for me and helado for dessert - it came to about $50 USD. Which is way more then we need to be spending on vacation!!!!!
However it was a truly enjoyable, long and leisurely meal. Argentian Malbec is a great red wine in general, btw.
On the whole, it was a boring day, redeemed by our fantastic dinner. We are finding ourselves largely underwhelmed by BsAs, and wondering what all the fuss is about.
We ducked into a mountain gear shop to escape the rain. The employees there spoke English fluently - which is a major rarity here. They advised us on the remainder of our trip, the Patagonia part - and gave us some of their mate - which led to the most amusing event of the day.
Though he was fluent, the employee accidentally told Gregg to blow into the mate (which essentially is like telling someone to blow into a straw instead of suck). Gregg did this, and proceeded to blow hot water and Herba Mate (loose tea leaves) on some jackets for sale. Highly funny.
We returned to our neighborhood and strained to find a restaurant that opened up before 8 pm. They just don't really exist here! These people eat dinner at the most ridiculous hours! Even at 8 or 8:30, the restaurants are generally empty!
The only decent restaurant that was open was a pricey one (We haven't found food, or much else for that matter, to be as cheap as we had been expecting).
The whole experience was fantastic!(it is hard for me to eat well as a vegetarian, and as someone who can't understand all items on a Spanish only menu)...With wine, beer, T-bone for Gregg, some pasta dish for me and helado for dessert - it came to about $50 USD. Which is way more then we need to be spending on vacation!!!!!
However it was a truly enjoyable, long and leisurely meal. Argentian Malbec is a great red wine in general, btw.
On the whole, it was a boring day, redeemed by our fantastic dinner. We are finding ourselves largely underwhelmed by BsAs, and wondering what all the fuss is about.
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