Buenos Aires, Buenos Dias

Soo, it´s been embarrassingly long since the last post. I thought an amazing trip to Argentina was worthy of reviving this thing!

We have successfully arrived in Buenos Aires. Well minus our luggage, that was lost by LAN airlines. But after our fabulous day today, I say success, because I don´t think we thought about it for 1 minute. After arriving at the hotel, alas- no bags for them to hold, we checked in and then took off for the day. Started out in Palermo having a yummy and very euro-ish breakfast of coffee and toast, with jams and cheese on a cobblestone patio. The service was lethargically slow and rightly so, with the right hint of South American casualness and it being so early on Sunday morning. I think we started to see people emerging from their double caged front doors at around noon.

Breakfast was followed by a stroll through the Palermo neighbourhood, some window shopping, some more strolling, a snack of a deliciously savoury carne empanada. Eventually we decided to take the subway to San Telmo, about 20 minutes away. It was exciting and busy. It was a nice warm day, people swarmed everywhere. There were antique stores, street performers, artists, and little cafes everywhere. We had a really great lunch at this pretty mediocre looking cafe, it´s give-away was that it was busy busy! We feasted on our first bites of Argentinean beef, it lives up to everything wonderful that is said about it. Some wine, garlicky potatos and the most amazing chorizo sausages, at just 4 pesos each, we think that might be our daily snackum, wait that was the empanada, oh hell, we´ll have both!

In any case, we plodded back to our hotel, trying to race against the sunset, it gets dark here really early (5 pm). No luggage, and therefore nothing nice to change into meant we were eating in! Ordered from a Chinese restaurant around the corner, it was yumm! Veggies spring rolls (5 for 6 pesos), spicy beef stirfry and mixed fried rice were all really good in that greasy Chinese food way.

Definitely a successful day. We saw a lot, smelled a lot, most importantly ate a lot!

Hopefully our bags will show up tomorrow. We won´t think about it though. Now is time for bed- hours of travelling and 12 hours of walking the streets of Buenos Aires is just the night cap we needed.