Buenos Aires; Palermo, swine flu and on to Uruguay
I changed hostels for the weekend, moving out of the centre and into Palermo to be close to the happening stuff at night. Unfortunately the hostel I moved to, while a fine hostel, was not a good one for meeting people at. That partially ruined moving over there, also places are being closed and stuff canceled due to swine flu. :insertangerhere: Places that would normally be very busy (or so I was told) were almost empty.
I made the most of it by going to parillas and the local casa de empanadas, my favourites there being the dulce carne and the verduras con salsa blanca. Found a bar with lots of Argentinean micro brewed beers, and all the ones I tried were good! I also spent a lot of time figuring out where I want to go the next couple weeks and beyond. I was going to take the ferry to Colonia, Uruguay on Monday but I woke up to a thunderstorm so I postponed that a day and did some more planning. Found a great Argentinean restaurant (non parilla for a change) for dinner, with various local specialties. The stew, wine and flan con dulce de leche were are excellent and great value. When I ordered the latter I expected a piece of flan with a drizzle of dulce or something, what I got, was a piece of flan, and a lump of dulce almost as big as the flan, but hey, my mother always told me to eat all the food on the plate…
Tuesday the weather had improved so I caught the ferry to Uruguay. Cut it a bit close on departure since the bus took longer than expected (at 30c fares though it shouldn’t be that surprising), had to run the last bit up to the terminal and rush through immigration and check in. The ferry left exactly on time, was very nice, complete with a restaurant and duty free shop. Even though the trip was only 1 hour.
Tags: Argentina, Travel, Uruguay
Adam
Since when do you always do what your mother told you!!!!!