First days in Capital Federal

The IB6845 flight departed from Madrid to Buenos Aires with more than 2 hours delay, waiting for connections from other flights. I think they just tried to save money and cancel the next flight.

Anyway, I shared emergency seat during the more than 10.000 KM with a very bad girl and a very lovely lady. The bad girl is part of a beautiful, fun and sad book by Vargas Llosa full of funny peruvian expresions. And the lovely lady is an Argentinan who migrated to Israel when they lost all their business during the "corralito". She told me how they are getting lots of money and support by Israel as long as they stay there, now she is working as a nany as she called it. She told me about her life and how she was comming to visit one of his sons who is a bit depressed. I wanted to take her a picture to remember her, but I thought it wasn't appropriate. I just waited to check she got her luggage and wished her all the luck. I hope everything goes fine Elena.

Due to the delay I couldn't have dinner with my brother and try the famous Argentinian meats. I promised I would take revenge the next day.

This is the appartment. The view is not great, but the area is ok and very convinient, near the "subte" which costs less than 25 p compared with the 4 pounds tube.

First day was a bit cloudy in the morning and we went for a walk to the famous obelisk that can be see from everywhere. Then we did a city tour cycling. I have becomed a fan of cycling tours from now on and on Saturday we will do another one. It is a great option.

...I still don't know how I didn't fall off the bike when I took this picture of my bro, seriously I was riding in front.

Some parts of the city are very similar to London, like canary warf. Other parts look like Madrid. In many ways is very European.

This is the Boca Juniors stadium. The last match of the tournament is on Sunday and they are on top with the same points of other two teams. There are no more tickets for sale, we'll have to go to re-sellers. Boca is the team of the working class. They used to wear the same colors as their rival team River Plate. They had a match to decide who should wear the red and white colors and River won. Boca was very sad and decided they would use the colors of the next boat who arrived the river. It was a Swedish boat and since then red and white is forbidden even in the Coca-Cola ads.

Finally I got my deserved meat feast. We went to a Rodizio where we could have 18 different cuts of meat. I think I have almost tried them all, as you can see.

After a couple of days we decided to do something different and took a ferry to Uruguay and visit a small city, Colonia. It looks relaxing and quite. It was worth it to get out of the noise for a change. And the icecreams are delicious here.

San Telmo is the bohemian part of the city with live music. Here we enjoyed a few caipirinhas and a local music.

This is all for now, there are many more things to do here. I hope we had time.

By the way, coffee is excellent. See you soon