Far side: cars ready to go on 9th de Julio - seven each way.
The elevator shaft, elevator arriving, and Peter ready to operate it.
The frigate, Samiento: steam and sail powered.
The pedestrian bridge across the channel.
It is called the Woman's bridge, so they have a series of statues.
The train that runs the length of the port.
Entrance to the zoo,
Public school kids wear white smocks as uniforms.This guy is having a lazy day!
This profile reminds me of someone.
Exhibition centre at the botanical gardens
I am not sure why the pictures are so spread out, but maybe it will publish better! Espero.
Monday, Nov. 1
Up and to the laundry before breakfast. Eighteen pesos ($2.50) will do it all. After breakfast, we spend the day walking. We head down to the Puerto Madera area, the old port turned ecological park and high-rise modern buildings. They have kept the old cranes from when this was the working port, painted them brightly as part of the heritage. Some of the old warehouses have been gussied-up into condos with ground-floor restaurants. We splurge and spend the 2 pesos each to go through the frigate, Sarmiento, which is still cared-for by the naval employees and is a well-laid-out museum. Peter finds a take-out store that sells hot dogs. You would think it was filet the way he enjoyed it. On the way back to the hotel, we take the small, modern port-side train that runs the length of the waterfront. At the far end, we walk back along the other main pedestrian street called Reconquista. This is a banking, financial street, with the flavour of the heart of Old Montreal. Altogether, we spend six hours wandering about. Tomorrow we will do less walking.
The front desk guy suggests a little restaurant around the corner for dinner. The service is bad, we almost up and leave when the gal ignores us, but the food is good. I final find a place that makes fresh soup. I have the fish soup that is “swimming” in fish! Enough.
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Peter collects the laundry before breakfast. All seems well. Once we are ready to leave we ask the advise of the receptionist and he suggests if we want to go to the Tango show at Café Tortoni - a famous café for writers and performers which is one block down the street - we can go and make the reservations today for the Wednesday evening show. We must wait until 11 a.m. as that is when the tickets office opens. All is done. We pass a hair salon - with an older stylist and clientele - so I make an appointment for tomorrow, at noon. Peter likes being with a blonde! Finally, we are off to experience the Metro of Buenos Aires!
As in most cities, the subway is well marked and inexpensive - 1.1 peso - about 30 cents. This one appears as though it was beautiful when it first opened, but is somewhat worse for wear. It gets us right to the corner where the zoo and botanical gardens are situated. The gardens are closed until 12:30, so we head directly to the zoo. We mingle with classes of children being guided by official zoo guides, and walk, walk, walk. We are there for over four hours, with a couple of sit-downs to rest. It is a hot day! I think the collection of snakes is the most impressive. I will do a snake blog so those who are interested can see and those who aren’t can skip it.
As we pass the botanical gardens, we read the sign that says, for today only, there is free admission between 12:30 and 5:00. We take a peek, even though we are tired. It is a peaceful place to be if you like tall shade trees and a great variety of flowers, as well as cats (lots of well-groomed, healthy-looking residents) and can ignore the traffic noise from the nearby, but unseen, avenues. It is a quick trip home with only a short miss-step as we end up on the wrong side of the platform once. As there are virtually no people on our side, and we are traveling a busy route, we have the sense to a ask the ticket man before getting on. Home safely for our usual late dinner.
Up and to the laundry before breakfast. Eighteen pesos ($2.50) will do it all. After breakfast, we spend the day walking. We head down to the Puerto Madera area, the old port turned ecological park and high-rise modern buildings. They have kept the old cranes from when this was the working port, painted them brightly as part of the heritage. Some of the old warehouses have been gussied-up into condos with ground-floor restaurants. We splurge and spend the 2 pesos each to go through the frigate, Sarmiento, which is still cared-for by the naval employees and is a well-laid-out museum. Peter finds a take-out store that sells hot dogs. You would think it was filet the way he enjoyed it. On the way back to the hotel, we take the small, modern port-side train that runs the length of the waterfront. At the far end, we walk back along the other main pedestrian street called Reconquista. This is a banking, financial street, with the flavour of the heart of Old Montreal. Altogether, we spend six hours wandering about. Tomorrow we will do less walking.
The front desk guy suggests a little restaurant around the corner for dinner. The service is bad, we almost up and leave when the gal ignores us, but the food is good. I final find a place that makes fresh soup. I have the fish soup that is “swimming” in fish! Enough.
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Peter collects the laundry before breakfast. All seems well. Once we are ready to leave we ask the advise of the receptionist and he suggests if we want to go to the Tango show at Café Tortoni - a famous café for writers and performers which is one block down the street - we can go and make the reservations today for the Wednesday evening show. We must wait until 11 a.m. as that is when the tickets office opens. All is done. We pass a hair salon - with an older stylist and clientele - so I make an appointment for tomorrow, at noon. Peter likes being with a blonde! Finally, we are off to experience the Metro of Buenos Aires!
As in most cities, the subway is well marked and inexpensive - 1.1 peso - about 30 cents. This one appears as though it was beautiful when it first opened, but is somewhat worse for wear. It gets us right to the corner where the zoo and botanical gardens are situated. The gardens are closed until 12:30, so we head directly to the zoo. We mingle with classes of children being guided by official zoo guides, and walk, walk, walk. We are there for over four hours, with a couple of sit-downs to rest. It is a hot day! I think the collection of snakes is the most impressive. I will do a snake blog so those who are interested can see and those who aren’t can skip it.
As we pass the botanical gardens, we read the sign that says, for today only, there is free admission between 12:30 and 5:00. We take a peek, even though we are tired. It is a peaceful place to be if you like tall shade trees and a great variety of flowers, as well as cats (lots of well-groomed, healthy-looking residents) and can ignore the traffic noise from the nearby, but unseen, avenues. It is a quick trip home with only a short miss-step as we end up on the wrong side of the platform once. As there are virtually no people on our side, and we are traveling a busy route, we have the sense to a ask the ticket man before getting on. Home safely for our usual late dinner.
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