Phoney money and "La Bombonera"

Hi again and thanks for all the comments,

We finally spent the last couple of days in Buenos Aires before heading for the Nort West and the more traditional part of the country.

As normally we start the day having brunch in a pizza place,

Ugi's one of the best places to have pizza in Buenos Aires. In the menu there is only one type of food and 3 kinds of drinks: pizza margarita, water, pepsi and beer. That's how all places should be, once you master one thing, why trying something else!! I can think in many places back in London where they should have only one thing in the menu :)

We rented again a bicycle and cycle the rest of the town. As any other latin city, on weekends everything is closed and the traffic is very light.

We cycled for more than 30KM around town and saw almost everything: monuments, a polo match, the Recoleta cementery, and many more things...

This is the cementery of Recoleta where all the VIP's are burried. It is like a mini city, where each family tried to show they were richier than the neighbours. Anyway, it is really beautiful.

Even Evita is burried there.

I like that Argentinians have dinner late, like in any other healthy country. So we had dinner late, obviusly meat and went out until almost at 6 in the morning. As expected, nothing much to report during the next day, just that hung overs in the South Emisphere are as bad as in the North one.

Phoney bills!! And very bad ones!! When we were going to pay for an ice cream, the assistant told us that the bills were fake.

We have now two 10 fake bills. It is not much money, each of them less than 3 Euros. Anyway, it hurts, even more when we saw how bad they are. I don't know if you can appreciate it in the picture but the two on the bottom are the fake ones. The watermark is just a while layer on top and they look like as done with a normal color printer. We don't know who gave them to us and we haven't decided what to do with them yet Should we pass them or be good boys and destroy them? Any suggestions?

The only remaing thing to do in Buenos Aires was, as mentioned in the previous post, the Boca Juniors match in the "Bombonera" stadium. We couldn't get tickets in advance, so the only chance was to go there on they same day and buy them to the re-sellers.

We went to the stadium and when we got there most of the people were already inside. We got wrong the time of the match but we didn't know that. We couldn't get any tickets but when we were leaving a guy told us he had tickets to platea. They were even cheap!!! Something smelt weird, so we didn't want to pay until we managed to cross the barriers. We crossed the barriers!!, so we paid. But we were in the "barra brava", the most dangerous place to be in a football stadium in the world. We were advised not to go there under no circumstances, not to wear watch, no cameras, no money, etc. But it was to late...we were already there.

In that zone, there are no seats, no police, it is under a ceiling and there are lots of people standing up, most of them with no sirt. So we decided to take the sirts off trying to keep a low profile. The game was already in the second half. We couldn't almost see anything and after 15 minutes and when the rival team scored, we decided it was better to leave in case a war started after the match. We managed to survive and take that picture.

All the Boca area, and the surroundings of the stadium are very scary, there is this kind of silence and all the buildings are semi destroyed. It makes you feel very uneasy. Specially when the local people advise you not to go there.

Hasta pronto