A Football Day

A pretty early start this morning for our 7am flight to Buenos Aires. We were in Argentina this time last year, so were going to spend the time in neighbouring countries. However, we had a voucher from last year's trip to spend on a sports event and Boca Juniors were playing at home today so we decided to spend a little time in Buenos Aires to watch the game.

We'd landed and were at the hotel for 10:15 and very luckily they let us check in, before most people check out. First job was to exchange some money. We had checked at the airport, which is always a con but it was interesting to know. For a 100 dollars you would have got 64,000 pesos. We changed the money at a little grocery shop the hotel reception told us about and for 100 dollars we got 119,900. Enough said.

With cash, well lots of cash, in my pocket it was off to the pub to watch the Arsenal game, which we watched in the Gibraltar. A home from home sort of place with an English landlord, that we'd been in a couple of times when we were here last year. Unfortunately, we didn't play well and lost to West Ham 1-0.

Then via some lunch in the San Telmo market, it was off to the pick up point for our evening excursion. Which was a Boca Juniors game against Aldosivi. The quality of Argentine football isn't the best as all their good players play abroad, but the fans more than make up for that. Behind the goal to our left in the terraces, there was a band leading the singing. We got to our seats 40 mins before the game and they didn't stop singing until halftime, and then throughout the 2nd half too. They must have been exhausted come the final whistle. Though happy, as Boca scored the winner in the last 10 minutes of the game to win 2-1.Read more