Serena Abbott

Highlights:
- San Telmo market was a beautiful food hall to walk around, we went a few times!
- Wandering around Boca neighborhood which was was really lively and colourful, and cool to see the boca stadium and the graffiti around the streets
- Sitting in the back of a police car after being rescued from a dodgy area we accidentally wandered into was an experience
- Our Airbnb was really nice, and had a pool and views of the city from the top floor
- Really interesting walking tour of the centre where we learnt a lot about the history and current situation in Argentina
- Watching a tango show at Café Tortoni was incredible
- Walking around Recoleta cemetery which was like a mini city of graves was a unique experience, and we saw the grave of Evita
- Josh went to see a football match (Independiente) which he enjoyed
- Going to a Boca Juniors match was crazy, they won and the fans were singing and jumping throughout the match which made an incredible atmosphere
- Visiting the beautiful Japanese Gardens

Lowlights:
- On our Uber from the airport to our hostel someone bumped into our car at the traffic lights - it was only a tiny scrape on the car but it took a while to sort (we got a refund though so that's a plus!)
- Serena felt quite run down in Buenos Aires, but luckily it didn't last the whole time
- We got the bus to the River Plate football stadium to try get tickets for the match but failed - we knew it was very unlikely anyway, and we still saw the fans and the atmosphere
- It rained one day and it was a national holiday so lots of people were protesting in the streets, but that meant a lot of public transport was shut so we did a lot of walking in the rain!
- We had a hotel for part of our stay opposite a club which played loud music one night until 3am - luckily it was only once
- We had to get to the Boca Juniors stadium 3 hours early to guarantee entry (and we had paid a lot for the tickets!) so we were extremely tired by the end of the match
- We went to visit the parks and free zoo on a day where they were all closed, our fault for not checking!

Food and drinks:
- We had at least one alfajor or sweet treat containing dulce de leche a day, we get the obsession!
- We had choripan (pork sausage in a bread roll with chimichurri sauce) at Chori which was on Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix which was delicious
- We managed to get into Don Julio (number 14 on the world's 50 best restaurants!) and had the best steaks we'd ever had
- Flan with dulce de leche was delicious
- We went to a fancy cocktail place where the barman asked us what kind of drinks we usually liked and chose a cocktail for us!
- We went to a British Indian restaurant for curry, and had real poppadoms and mango chutney for the first time in the trip
- Josh tried fugazetta pizza which he loved - it was thick crust, covered in loads of cheese, and topped with onions
- We had ice cream from one of the best shops in the world apparently (Cadore) - we shared a dulce de leche which was insane, and a pomelo which Marie and Hugo would have loved!
- Dulce de leche pancakes - definitely one to make at home!
- Ice cream for breakfast one day, where we had dulce de leche with chocolate chips and meringue pieces - amazingWeiterlesen