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...
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We're still using mostly large-scale maps,
playing catch-up in our knowledge of the
place |
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| Vicki doing the planning, as usual |
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Our apartment in this building on Rodriguez
Pena |
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Happily, a Carrefours Express right across the street, just like
in Paris |
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Bench, these and similar all over Recoleta, where we are; not
so confortable, really, all concrete |
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| Centralized AC not a thing here |
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| More benches |
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| Opera house |
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| More weird southern hemisphere vegetation |
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| Beautiful parks, monuments, statues, everywhere |
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Among the landmarks, the obelisk, which Napoleon brought
back from Egypt; wait, no... |
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| In the gorgeous old Galeries Pacifico |
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In the Centro Cultural Borges, 4th floor, an
automated museum gift store; a first for us |
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| Among the many art and photo exhibits in the Centro |
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| Center of the Centro |
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| The shopping center below |
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A giant mate bolle; an emerging theme of our
visit to Argentina |
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| Yes, that Borges... |
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| Among the murals there |
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| 1930s murals in the Galeries |
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| Muy famoso |
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Gorgeous architecture everywhere, mostly
neo-classical, colonial, occasional art nuvo |
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| On Florida street, the mile-long pedestrianized shopping area |
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| More architecture |
