Day 91 - Buenos Aires, Argentina (17 June 2012)

Day 91 – Buenos Aires, Argentina (17 June 2012)

Today we awoke to another cold and miserable day.  There was one positive about the weather though, it was not raining! We had breakfast and went to the San Telmo Sunday market with our new friends Romin, John and Erika, all from England.  The San Telmo Sunday market is a large market where an entire street is closed (street goes for about 3 kilometres) with streets leading off this main street also closed and market stalls are erected with a variety of goods sold.  There is also music playing and tango dancing shows going on.  It was a very active and entertaining event.  We wandered the streets for a good part of four hours, just checking out each stall.  I purchased a Quilmers beer t-shirt, the only purchase of the day.  On the way back to the hostel we stopped in at a bbq on the side of the street and had a good Argentinean sausage, it was very nice.  As we were walking back the rain started to fall, it was mid afternoon at this stage so we decided to call it a day.  We think we have conquered Buenos Aires so we will spend the cold and wet Sunday afternoon relaxing indoors, which we did with Romin after we bid farewell to John and Erika who had finished their 5 month adventure in South America and were now flying to Africa for the next stage of their 14 month world tour.

At about 8.30pm, we went out for dinner at Don Ernestos, the same place as we went on Monday night, our first night in Buenos Aires, for a steak dinner with Romin and Nico.  It was a fantastic meal, but if I was being critical, it was not as good as Monday night, only just though!  After a good meal and a few wines we said goodbye to Nico and went back to the hostel.  We met Nico on the 4x4 tour in Bolivia at the start of April and had met up with him quite often on our trails.  He was heading back to Italy on Wednesday so we are planning on catching up with him while we are on his side of the world.  We then went back to the hostel and said goodbye to Romin, who has an early flight tomorrow morning.  We will see him in London when he returns from his travels.  Then it was off to the dorm to start packing for our departure tomorrow then off to bed.