A Rain Day

Today they were predicting a heavy rain day so we decided to mainly do indoor activities. It wasn't going to start raining until 11 so we figured we could squeeze in the BA rose garden. It was also close to the Evita Peron museum which we wanted to go to. The rose garden was very good with different beds dedicated to different types of roses. We wandered around for about an hour smelling and looking at the roses.

Our olfactory glands eventually needed a rest so we walked over to the Evita Peron museum. Evita Peron was the wife of Juan Peron. She had been a famous radio actress before marrying Peron.They were both controversial figures. Evita had a cult-like following which increased after her early death in 1952 from cervical cancer. I think pap smears were not commonly used for screening in the 50s. A totally preventable disease. Juan and Evita were populists ushering in public health, public education and workers rights. The museum was in a beautiful building which had initially been a woman's shelter established by Evita. It gave a very positive audio tour of the Perons and Evita. Lots of her old dresses.

We then headed over to The museum of Fine Arts. It still hadn't started raining so we ate our lunch in a park beside the British Embassy.

The Museum of Fine Arts was a more traditional gallery with less modern art and more art from European painters. It appeared that wealthy Argentina had left their art collections to the gallery. They had a number of impressionistic pieces and sculptures by Rhodan. For all intensive purposes we could have been in Europe.

The rain was still holding off so we had one more goal of the day. Chat gpt had found a cafe that served decaf coffee. Cheryl always liked an afternoon decaf but all of the coffee shops we have been to so far don't have decaf. Ambar cafe was half way home to our BnB so we took a bus there. BA has a very efficient public transit system of both buses and subway which we have conveniently used to get all around town. 60 cents a ride. We have only used Uber once and for a 25 minute trip it was only 6 dollars.

While we were at the cafe, the rain finally hit and did it ever pour rain. Fortunately we were safe inside enjoying our decaf drinks.Leggi altro