Art, Wine and Food!

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 of Maradona everywhere After devouring a Margarita pizza and a couple of beers we set out looking for a place to buy wine. We just so happened to come across the smallest wine shop in Argentina, well thats what they claim!


Once we had done a bit of shopping, we found a little gastropub on a side street where a glass of wine was less than 2 quid. A couple of glasses each, and we thought we better head back to the hotel, via the bar, of course! I still hadn`t tried Fermat, so we ordered that with coke, apparently an Argentinian favourite; I`m not convinced though. I switched back to Malbec, when in Rome and all that!

Next stop was dinner at a place called Parilla Pena which was recommended to us; it was in the local area and was excellent. We ordered the rib-eye with fries, but this seemed to come with an empanada to start with and lots of bread. By the end of the meal, we were stuffed and waddled back to the hotel. I don`t think I want steak or another empanada anytime soon.

Unfortunately, this our last night, so we didn`t have much choice other than returning to the hotel to pack and get some slee; we have an early pick up for the airport tomorrow followed by a very very long flight!

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