Buenos Aires, Argentina

Today was an all day walking tour with food and drink. We thought this was a semi-private tour, with a small group but it ended up being a private tour with just us and the guide! We met our guide Agustin in the morning and had a quick breakfast of pastries and espresso. The pastries had Quince fruit in them, so that was something new of us. We then walked to a park dedicated to Guiseppe Garibaldi. He was an Italian freedom fighter, raising forces to help the locals liberate Buenos Aires. We also had a cocktail called the Garibaldi, which our guide brought for us in his thermos. It's 1 part Campari and 2 parts orange juice. It could just be our new morning cocktail, nudging out the Mimosa.
Buenos Aires is a very 'green' city with many parks and a canopy of trees down just about every street.
We then walked to a house in another park built for the architect Carlos Thays. He is actually French and designed the Champs DeLise. Argentina hired him in the early 1900's to design and build the gardens, statues and street system that is still here today. Walked thru a little craft market, found a small ink quil drawing......so funky. It is a sea horse, with hummingbird wings and tongue, eating out of a gramaphone with a flower as the speaker. Just so unique, we had to buy. Was only like 40 USD.
We had lunch at a local restaurant with Steak, Chicken, mashed potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes. It was very tasty along with the chimichurri. We then continued our walk to take in the smaller streets and murals painted on the buildings around the city. We stopped at a micro brewery for beer and empanadas. They were very tasty - Steak for me, and mushroom with cheese for Scott.
Our last stop was an ice cream parlor started by Italians and all the ice cream is made in house. I had the Dulce De Leche and Scott had the Mascarpone with fruit. Then back to our hotel just as the rain started. We were so lucky that our walk was a nice sunny day.Read more