We woke up early this morning, well early for Buenos Aires
standards. These late nights we are
having are starting to get us into the usual Buenos Aires lifestyle, late
mornings and early nights! The reason we got up early was to get the free tickets
to a show at the Theatro Colon in the city.
Our hostel manager had told us to get to the ticket booth by 10am on
Friday to pick the tickets up for the show on Sunday. We walk to the Theatro and ask the attendant
who tells us the show is on Saturday and is booked out. Apparently the tickets were given away on
Thursday and the show is on Saturday. A
bit of miscommunication from our hostel manager. We then walk to the bus terminal so we can
buy some bus tickets to Puerto Iguazu for Monday. We decide to get some money out at the bus
terminal and buy the tickets, however the atms at the terminal (and the nearby
train station) all were out of order. Oh
well we will come back tomorrow and buy them then, and get some money out in
the city. We walked back to the city via
Ave Florida, I like this pedestrian street, lots happening and some good shops to
have a browse. We then walk to Plaza de
Mayo and what do you know, we stumble across the Cathedral! It does not look
like a Cathedral from the outside but certainly does from the inside. It is a pity some homeless people camp out in
front of the building. We then walk to the
Bicentennial museum which was opened on the 200th anniversary of
Argentina being a republic two years ago.
It is very modern but not very impressive. It is about the Presidents from the last
century or so, nothing mentioned about the political history of the country
which is pretty interesting (can’t believe I am finding politics interesting!). We then walk back to the hostel via the vege
market so we can make some soup. At the
hostel we talk all night to our English friends – Romin, John and Erika. It was a really nice night.
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