December 1
We arrived in Buenos Airies (fair winds in spanish) on a beautiful day. Come to think of it, we had generally cool weather until Montevideo. We had arranged to meet Monica and Augustina for lunch and decided we could walk through Calle Florida (the Rodeo Drive of South America) and into San Telmo to meet them. We walked for 3.5 hours and arrived early and thirsty. We sat down at an outdoor table under a tree and enjoyed a beer while waiting. A tour bus loaded with our ship passemgers drove by and we waved while they took pictures. I can just imagine someone developing their pictures and wondering ¨who are those old broads...they look like two women we saw on the ship!
We had a wonderful visit but our hostesses had to get back to work. They called a taxi for us and we journied on to Carmenito, the outdoor museum, in La Boca. We regretted our lack of time but managed to get back to San Telmo for a look around and walked back to H. Stern tograb their shuttle to the Port.
Our stay in B.A. was cut short as the ship had to leave several hours earlier than schedule on Dec. 2 and most of the passengers were quite annoyed as 1.5 days in B.A. is certainly not enough time.
It you are looking for a winter get away this is the city to shop in. You can buy a smallish pied a tiere here for about $18,000 US and fix it up for about half that again!
This is definitely a city to visit and stay a couple of weeks...maybe longer.
We left with regrets.
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Dec.14- Starting to worry about you guys! It is a balmy -33 here and a record was set out at the international airport -46 with windchill. We were the coldest spot in canada last night and the 2nd coldest in the world, beat out by a Siberia weatherstation by only 2C. I think we have different definitions of "generally cool" House is in chaos as we are having the carpets replaced today. missing you guys! Happy Hannukah
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