Buenos Aires
Take off at Buenos Airess International Airport at noon local time ! We pick up our bags after 20 hours spent in planes and transit, glad to finally see the sun and feel the humid and hot South American air !
A taxi brings us to Philipe, Stephanie and Barney’s flat in Buenos Aires center. Stephanie is studying international business at ESC in exchange in Buenos Aires this year; Philippe is working in an Hostel before taking back electronics studies and Barney, as a rabbit, is specially attached to Baptiste’s smell, and insure flat‘s animation. We put our french winter clothes in our bag and were havaianas !
We have a week to discover the capital (for me) and prepare our trip !
Besides hours spent in bars to work on our itinary, planning and budgets (Thanks to Léo’s Lonely Planet) we had time to live like a real Portenios :
- A great Concert of Improvised Percussions (sound painting) at « Bomba de Tiempo » (they even integrated an accordéon and made Portenios dancing valse ! )
- Portenios’ Bars… well at least we took habits to « Bella Gamba »
- A visit of almost all Cars Renting places in Buenos Aires to know their conditions, prices, cars and assurances ( yes some of them wants 12 000 ARS in cash)
- A visit in Chinese Neighborhood for New years eve which finally was a difficult walk in streets full of people with nems’smells.
- Meeting with portenios: Nati (always full of energy), Brian (great wellcoming and good plans in Buenos aires), Bea & Ale (where we always fell like home), Martin (which brings us to parilla deep in Buenos Aires) and Charlene (almost Portenios already)
- An evening in a Bodega for great argentin wines’ testing commented by the chief , so we will know what to choose all along the comings months.
- Crossing of 9th July Avenue (the largest avenue in the world) and of Rivadavia Avenue ( longest avenue in the world) Even if we didn’t walf all along the 27 kms !
- Afternoons in Buenos Aires’ parcs and roseraies
- Evening in Parilla with as mush as we want of well done cooked argentina meet.
We are leaving Buenos Aires this monday with a great white Corsa 3 doors which will be our fidel friend for the next 2 month ! Bags packed, map of Buenos Aires, we get into portenios trafic with still so many things to do and people to find back there !
We are going to South throught Atlantic Coste crossing Pampa !
1 comments:
You are portenios, there is no doubt of that. I remember when I went to BA, I experienced almost the same thing, i also went to see Bomba de Tiempo, it is very nice and innovative I believe. The Chinese neighborhood for new years eve, but let me tell you, that was crazy, the streets full of people, shops in the middle of the streer, and I did not get to see any Chinese guy. Well, I liked it anyway.
Regarding food, I tried everything: steak, dulce de leche, empanadas, ice-cream, the whole package. I had an apartment rental buenos aires in the neighborhood of Recoleta, close to the Recoleta Cemetary.
That trip you are about to do is awesome. I wish i had done something like that. They say Atlantic Coast is amazing.
Cheers,
Summer
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