So it goes
Since we worked out how it operates, you can´t keep us off the "subte" (underground) and now that we are no longer doing classes we are enjoying the opportunity to get around BA. Yesterday we went and had a look at Home which is the hotel we will be staying at the week after next in Palermo Viejo-or is it Palermo Holywood?Hard to tell as the names change all the time. Anyway, it looks great. We had a cup of coffee in the bar and checked out the pool and the loungers in the adorable garden-so thanks for that recommendation, Esther and Paul. We shall have a champagne cocktail in the bar and think of you both on our first night.
The only problem with this outing was that Mike´s sunglasses hopped of the train rather before he did in the hands of some light fingered youth who had managed to unhook them from his belt in the crush on the train. Ah well. You learn. All our jewelery, passports and camera are in the safe, but we didn,t think that a reasonable but not outrageous pair of old raybans would be that interesting. Anyway, it was a good excuse to stop of at the Patio Bullrich, one of the nicest malls in downtown BA (the one that is housed in an old horse and cattle market-oh plese keep up, I must have mentioned this already!) and buy a new pair from Mike´s second favourite shop, the Italian one with the initials EZ (the favourite is Paul Smith of course). We were very impressed when the salesman came back with the receipt and said that there was someone with the name Mike Tierney, who shopped in their store in Melbourne, but he assumed that Mike was the Mike Tierney from Cadiz. Isn´t new technology wonderful! So we went and had coffee and icecream (dulce de leche flavour-Argentinia´s national flavour) to celebrate the purchase before we set off again to San Telmo to look around with fewer crowds than there were on Sunday. Now we are waiting for Greg to arrive back from Salta before we set off again in search of further adventures in downtown BA. If only the food was better, I could live here! How is it possible to runin a salad?
The only problem with this outing was that Mike´s sunglasses hopped of the train rather before he did in the hands of some light fingered youth who had managed to unhook them from his belt in the crush on the train. Ah well. You learn. All our jewelery, passports and camera are in the safe, but we didn,t think that a reasonable but not outrageous pair of old raybans would be that interesting. Anyway, it was a good excuse to stop of at the Patio Bullrich, one of the nicest malls in downtown BA (the one that is housed in an old horse and cattle market-oh plese keep up, I must have mentioned this already!) and buy a new pair from Mike´s second favourite shop, the Italian one with the initials EZ (the favourite is Paul Smith of course). We were very impressed when the salesman came back with the receipt and said that there was someone with the name Mike Tierney, who shopped in their store in Melbourne, but he assumed that Mike was the Mike Tierney from Cadiz. Isn´t new technology wonderful! So we went and had coffee and icecream (dulce de leche flavour-Argentinia´s national flavour) to celebrate the purchase before we set off again to San Telmo to look around with fewer crowds than there were on Sunday. Now we are waiting for Greg to arrive back from Salta before we set off again in search of further adventures in downtown BA. If only the food was better, I could live here! How is it possible to runin a salad?
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