Buenos Aires' Telmo Market

Telmo is one of BA's oldest neighborhoods, and on Sundays it holds a large outdoor market, block after block, mostly crafts, and no crap, leading to the weekly antique market at Plaza Dorrego. Our kind of thing, and another 20,000+ step day.

Another old colonial church, leaving the Plaza Mayor

Never miss a poetry bar

Telmo not as classy at Recoleta, but no less interesting

In the street market

Bass jungle flutes, incredible depth, tone

Fire stove incense burners, handmade

Music everywhere

Antique seltzer bottles

Adjoining the Plaza Dorrego

Frida Kahlo, one of the most photographed
women of her time, still an irresistible image

Off the Plaza, another old colonial

Local boy makes good Papa

Back in the Plaza, they were playing the slow movement from
Rodrigo's Concerto Aranjuez; if that doesn't put you in the mood,
what would?

Tango!

Our first full day in Buenos Aires ended with a tango performance at the Borges Center. No pix were allowed during the show, but I did get a few at the end. Needless to say, the performance was fascinating and exhilarating, although I doubt Vicki and I will be taking it up this late in life. We had gotten decent at swing a decade ago, but that was before joint replacement, mal de debarquement, etc.

This dude was not in the show but did enjoy
handing out programs and modeling his heels

I was struck with how much more work, and risk, the female
dancers undertake 

There were six dancers, two vocalists, and band of four; a
pretty thrilling experience

Buenos Aires Scenes, 2

More scenes from Buenos Aires...

Buenos aires in the cathedral of Buenos Aires

Thus; the current pope was here

Riding of the Mystic Jackass

If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it

Tomb of the Libertador, San Martin

In the Plaza Mayor

Thus always to political expression...

The Casa Rosada

From which Evita preached to the masses

The city is vastly decentralized, but there is
interesting old and new architecture all over

Art class on a Saturday morning

More architecture

The Kirschner, another great cultural center, closed, alas, until
February

Our first look into a parilla...

On offer this afternoon; Argentina uses the $ for the peso, six
or so of which make a US dollar

Look carefully (click to enlarge) and you can see...at the other
extreme...three McDonald's on this one block

Another cultural center

Nice door

More  beauty

Buenos Aires Scenes, 1

Our last days in Menlo Park were a bit frenetic, especially with Vicki and Rebecca spending a long weekend in Las Vegas for a reunion with Marie and Stacey and Bob and Beth. On January 12, we departed, ready or not, for two months in South America, specifically in Argentina, Chile, and Peru. We are in Bariloche now, Argentina's lake district. The frenetic pace continues, but I am now within a week of catching up....

We spent the better part of four days in Buenos Aires and could have stayed longer but for previously made reservations. This city of 15 million is pretty much as advertised, as European as it is South American, lively, classy, enormous, and quite young. Mostly we walked around, visiting various sites, just enjoying the abundant ambiance. And ate...

We're still using mostly large-scale maps,
playing catch-up in our knowledge of the
place

Vicki doing the planning, as usual

Our apartment in this building on Rodriguez
Pena

Happily, a Carrefours Express right across the street, just like
in Paris

Bench, these and similar all over Recoleta, where we are; not
so confortable, really, all concrete

Centralized AC not a thing here

More benches

Opera house

More weird southern hemisphere vegetation

Beautiful parks, monuments, statues, everywhere

Among the landmarks, the obelisk, which Napoleon brought
back from Egypt; wait, no...

In the gorgeous old Galeries Pacifico

In the Centro Cultural Borges, 4th floor, an
automated museum gift store; a first for us

Among the many art and photo exhibits in the Centro

Center of the Centro

The shopping center below

A giant mate bolle; an emerging theme of our
visit to Argentina

Yes, that Borges...

Among the murals there

1930s murals in the Galeries

Muy famoso

Gorgeous architecture everywhere, mostly
neo-classical, colonial, occasional art nuvo

On Florida street, the mile-long pedestrianized shopping area

More architecture