Buenos Aires, part 3

We moved to a different apartment in another part of town called Almagro. We wanted to see a different slice of life than the trendy Recoleta or Palermo neighborhoods. It's much quieter and a little more gritty but still totally safe.

We met up with a couple friends. Sophia is the daughter of our friend Keith and she lives in Milwaukee. Her mother is Argentinian and she was visiting her grandparents here. We went to the Boca neighborhood, home of the famous Boca Junior's football club (and Diego Maradona, their Futbol god) During the day a lot of tourists go to take tours and watch tango dancers and look at the colorfully painted buildings. At night, it's not so safe.

We walked around and took our photos and then went to a museum where they make and store the stage sets and costumes for the Teatro Colon Opera House. We had steaks for lunch in the San Telmo district.

At this point I've been here almost 3 weeks and Deanne has had more than a week in Buenos Aires. The last few days have been just us enjoying walking around and having a good meal or two here and there. It's been amazing.

We also looked up an old friend that we were quarantined with during covid in Vilcabamba Ecuador for 3 months. Michelle is from San Diego and had been living here for a couple of years. We met at a restaurant and caught up on things. My blog posts on that from 2020 are here. We were so lucky to have our quarantine family at Izhcayluma.

https://findpenguins.com/0x7ax2pvwii8d/footprin…

Now we're off to Uruguay! It's just across the Rio Plata. Our ferry will drop us in Colonia and although it's small, we'll spend 3 nights there.

More photos and videos are here.

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