Messi's Childhood Home

After the museum we took a stroll 5 minutes around the block to Messi's childhood home. The area was filled with murals (see next post) and the colours of the Argentinian flag.

There was also a disproportionate number of toursit police cars (given me and Dan were the only tourists we saw), maybe I shouldn't have told the museum we were from Liverpool.

A very modest but liveable house in probably not the best neighbourhood. We stopped for a few minutes to imagine a young Messi roaming these streets and I've attached two pictures of the view looking out from his doorstep.Read more