Desde Los Angeles, pasando por Dallas, volé hasta Buenos Aires donde llegué un soleado domingo: allí están en pleno verano, hace calor y buen tiempo! Para un español aunque sea catalán como yo llegar a esta ciudad es como llegar a un lugar familiar, por mucho que muchas costumbres sean diferentes...hasta existe el barrio de Montserrat! La torre de la foto se llamaba de "los ingleses" pero después de la guerra de Las Malvinas le llamaron de otra forma y le colocaron el memorial por los caídos argentinos en dicha guerra justo enfrente...
From Los Angeles going through Dallas I took a flight to Buenos Aires where I arrived in a sunny Sunday: there is summer, it is warm and they have good weather. For an Spanish altough Catalan like me arriving to this city is like geting into a familiar place, despite many things are diferent....even there is a neighbourhood called Montserrat. The tower of the picture used to be calle of the English but its name was changed after the Malvinas war and a memorial for the fallen in that war has been located just in front of it.
Podéis llegar a pensar que fui allí de turismo pero lo cierto es que junto a mi equipo de Claims no paramos de trabajar durante los cinco días laborables de la semana. Eso sí el sábado Natalia nos invitó a pasar el día en su casa de campo y disfrutar del tradicional asado argentino, con toda clase de cortes de carne hechas a la brasa de la leña por un excelente parrillero! Un poco de pileta, un poco de ping pong, mucha carne, algo de mate y un estupendo día a pocos kilómetros de la capital.
You should think that I went there as a tourist but the truth is tha together with my Claims team there we worked hard the five working days. All right, on Saturday Natalia invite us to her countryside house and enjoy the traditional Argentinian "asado", with all its different cuts grilled with wood, with a superb "parrillero"! A little bit of swiming pool, a little bit of ping pong, a lot of meat, some "mate" and a fantastic day at few miles form the city.
Plaza de Mayo |
Calle Florida |
And finally on Sunday I went to visit Buenos Aires with the Tourist Bus, visiting all the main districts. It is interesting in the downtown area to see the Plaza de Mayo, where citizens are having continuous demonstrations of any kind, or the neighborhood of La Boca, where in addition to famous La Bombonera stadium of Boca Juniors, is the area Caminito street with all kinds of artists, restaurants and shops and small houses painted in bright colors ... unfortunately just there the battery of my camera run out!
Basílica Nuestra Señora del Pilar |
Without detracting from the Montserrat, San Telmo, Retiro, Palermo and Belgrano neighbourhoods, Recoleta is my favorite one with its stately mansions, tree-lined streets, its cemetery, the church of El Pilar, its street artists and performers, restaurants and terraces.
And among them the best in my opinion "La Biela" for its terrace, its decor, service and location. Here you have some Recoleta scenes that I feel they deserve be shared with you...tango dancers included!
Bueno...y y me vuelvo para Sao Paulo, hasta pronto!
Going back to Sao Paulo now, see you soon!
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