Don´t cry for me....

So we have said farewell to Buenos Aires and Argentina having spent our last evening at Casa Felix, Felix´s House. Felix is not our new best friend. The name, of course, is that off a restaurant. But it really is Felix´s house, one of the many (we were assured that it is the best) ¨private¨ restaurants in BA that are run within peoples´homes. The home in this case was what is called a "chorizo house" because all of the rooms run off each other, like a string of sausages! It was built in 1910 and so is in the art deco style that was typical of domestic architecture in BA at the time. Running alongside the rooms is an open tiled patio which has been filled with plants and which serves as an open air dining room. Before the meal we had drinks in the backgarden where Felix grows the herbs which he uses in cooking and then we ate-a 5 course degustacion menu plus an "intermezzo" of a sorbet made with melon, thyme and turmeric (sounds weird, tastes wonderful!). But best of all, from our point of view, all the food was either vegetables or fish, each course accompanied by a wonderful Argentinian wine. We finished off by finally getting to drink mate, the national tea of Argentina which people drink all the time, carrying their flasks around with them to top up their mate pot, on the street, in parks, at the cinema....

We felt the experience brought our stay in BA to a triumphant conclusion and we are now in Cusco ready to begin our tour of Peru. Things continue to look up on the food front as last night we stayed in the fabulous Hotel Miraflores Park (our room on the 9th floor looked out to the Pacific) and ate ceviche (fish marinaded in lemon or lime to cook) in their restaurant and were given a wonderful explanation of Peruvian food by our waiter. Off to lunch...