More exploring in Argentina uncovered different areas of the city.  Navigating the subway system and the Buenos Aires subway has proved fairly straightforward, and does get you to lots of parts of town, but not everywhere we have found.  Today was directed towards checking out the Borolo Palace, which is a really interestingly configured building that allows for some great shots of the city once you get higher up.  When it was built in 1923 and it was the tallest building in the city at that time, but a little like the whole of Buenos Aires it was a little underwhelming when it considered as being a palace.

Walking further, on taking in streets around the impressive Teatro Colon we were able to come across photo ops with the BA sign, and the symbol that marks the fact that the Youth Olympics which are in Buenos Aires in 2018.  The sun continued to shine as it has done for nearly all the time we have been here.  It has not been super hot, but it has been pleasant to see spring sunshine.

The OAPs doing Tai Chi was an fascinating side view within the city, and made for fun viewing for a few minutes.  Amazing what little elements I find quite interesting in big cities.  Buenos Aires does boast an endless array of parks and within each one you can see folks with dogs, girls sunbathing or guys in pick up soccer games.  Just the general day to day of a big city I guess, and a little side jaunt to a book store, but this was not any old book store, the El Ateneo Grand Splendid is beautiful.

 

We ended the day at the impressive MALBA museum which is home Latin American Art Museum including works by Frida Kohlo.

Wandering back to the hotel I stumbled upon the Buenos Aires Food Fest, it reminded of the Bite of Seattle, just a fun food event to get locals out, try something to eat and listen to some music in parks and small locations across town.  Food certainly is one of the top things for BA.

One particular idiosyncratic thing I have found about Buenos Aires is they do traffic light beggars, but they do it differently, there are numerous jugglers that hang out at various traffic lights and when the lights go red the leap into action to try and impress you for a few pesos.  I find it innovative, and so much better than the down and outs who inhabit American traffic lights on every corner in bit cities.

I’d like to say that today we didn’t once get lost, I’d like to say that, but I can’t 🙂  We had help getting us to MALBA but it is true there are few English speakers in Buenos Aires, not that there necessarily should be, but it is certainly a challenge for a tourist.  Buenos Aires has been an interesting city to learn to know, but tomorrow leads to another South American country as we take the ferry in the early morning over to Uruguay.