Sophistivacation

The last week has just flown by, it just seems like yesterday that we arrived! Unfortunately, its last supper time, but in our case, breakfast! Neither of us were hungry, but we had a cuppa and some cereal. Our taxi was due to pick us up for the airport at 8am so we checked out in plenty of time and settled the bill. At 8.15am, we were still waiting, so I contacted booking.com and they had an Uber to us within 5 minutes! Next stop, Ezeiza International Airport.  Everything at the airport was smooth and we were through to the lounge within 20 minutes. Time for one last empanada and a red wine; this time it was corn and not beef though! After killing a few hours, it was time to board the plane for stage one of the journey to Rio; we were greeted with a Champagne and a snack, yep you guessed it, another Empanada! This time it was back to beef, but I don't think I'll complain too much if it's a while before I have another one! All three flights were reasonably good and we event...

Last day in BA means cramming in as much sightseeing as possible, eating as much steak as possible and drinking as much malbec as possible!  We started off at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the museum of fine art in Buenos Aires. I was told it was free, but there seemed to be a mandatory contribution required once inside. There was only really two floors to see, some of it modern art which I wasn`t particularly interested in but there was a really cool installation with a US fighter plane nose-diving and Jesus pinned to it like the cross! There was also a lot of Degas, Gaugain, Van Gogh, Manet, Picasso to name a few. It wasn`t the best art gallery I`ve ever visited, but it was ok. Next stop was San Telmo market, I wanted to go back to have some food and experience downtown as we didn`t stay particularly long in the area on the walking tour. We ended up in a Neopolitan Pizza shop which had pictures ...

Today is all about Gauchos and Asado, or in simple terms Cowboys and BBQ! We had an early morning departure from the hotel, with Adrian picking us up in his purple Fiat Crono at 8.30am; he didn`t speak a work of English and we don`t speak Spanish, but the translation app he had on his phone worked! The journey to San Antonio de Areco took 1hr 40 minutes, but the road was beautiful once we were out of the city. Even though its only 140km away from Buenos Aires, its like a different world; Yessica, our guide for the day, met us in the main square called Ruiz de Arellano. The tour started at the Parish Church of San Antonio de Padua, the foundation of which was 1730 and the year in which the town was founded. The church has been added to twice since then, and it is probably the nicest ones we have visited since arriving in Argentina. The interesting part was the baptism chamber which has now been closed for use; there is an All-Seeing eye, which our guide said is associated with the mason...