Sunday in Buenos Aires

We Woke up quite tired after the toilet exploding in the night. Everyone knew about it. We had a tour on a bus today around Argentina with the lovely Jessica sharing her city with us. South Americans are all politically very await is great. Dictatorships create political activism.

The tour means we have some new friends so we had breakfast with some of the people on the tour. 

We set off on the bus at 10am and our first stop was at the mechanical flower that now only stays open

I also took a picture on the bus. 

We carried on through Buenos Aires admiring the city of monuments. The British and Spanish monuments that they were not so fond of having them from them. We saw the zoo and the Japanese garden. We heard about when the obelisk had the red Condom made for it. Google it. Looks very funny. 

We stopped and looked at St Martin's House. He was the father of the nation. 

We then went to Reclette the posh people's cemetery which was grandiose and Eva Perin is buried there. 

The alleyways are full of mausoleums

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Then Eva Peron

Her great uncle owns the mausoleum 

And then this one is of a lady who died at child birth. 

Then this one died in an avalanche and her dog missed her

Next we went to lunch at a cooperative. A group of women got together to make cakes and cater. They also run an after school group too. 

We had pizza and empanadas. Here is the tour group and art. 

Lunch was yum! 

 

The art was beautiful 

We bought some mini cakes and a little art board. 

We had lots of talk about the coop and how to make empanadas. 

Next we went to the dangerous area of La Boka where the hotel staff had said it was too dangerous to visit unaccompanied. 

Today was the football game between La Boca and Riverside. La Boca won. The away team were not allowed supporters there as it is too dangerous. The area was cordoned off from midday and was crawling with police. 

It is the lower class area and the artists reside there too. We went to a tourist shop area and then to visit Beatrice an artist in a tennament building. Her and her partners work from there and live nearby 

They bought the building from a family with ten children and it was previously a convent. 

The family lived in Austria and in Argentina

The art was amazing 

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Beatrice and Jessica

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After that we returned to the hotel sorted our new upgraded room and went out to the San Telmo market and bought a gorgeous new handbag. 

Then we had a lovely bottle of cab/sav Malbec with chees and crackers. We turned down paying $US200 to go and tango. We are tired from a busy day and exploding toilets etc and tomorrow we are off to Iguaza Falls at 7.30am.