Buenos Aires Stopover

Dawid enjoying a glass of Malbec wine (excellent). It is clear what the speciality is but we settled for modest pasta dishes after the parilla!

8/9 Dcemeber 2010.
We stopped in Buenos Aires for a brief visit of just over a day en route to Santiago.
We stayed in the Hotel Carsson where we found the Desk Manager, whom we dubbed Mr. Gorbachev in 2005 (remarkable likeliness then), still in control of matters.
Spent most of the time in the "Downtown" Centro part of the city and took some time to have a beer on Dorrego Square in Santelmo (on our tracks when we visited the city in 2005). Buenos has not changed a lot.
Less taxis and more organised (not as notoriously reckless as we found them to be in 2005). Santelmo is not the same in the week as over weekends without the street "artists" and other locals who create the fabric of the area.
We visited our favourite Parilla. The meat (portions) are only slightly less obsene that previously but the meat still excellent.
Thursday we finished off with excellent carbo-loading at a restaurant on the revamped dock area and arrived back at our hotel just in time to make for the airport.
A city full of character, less presence of tango dancers on every corner of Avenida Florida and the signs of hardship still very prominent.

Ready for serious protein at the Parilla

What a pleasure to fly with LAN airline. Our own carrier can REALLY take a few tips.