FUN:travel – Buenos Aires, Argentina – 4 days
February 4, 2013 by Susan Clarke · Comments Off on FUN:travel – Buenos Aires, Argentina – 4 days
The ABC’s of Argentina
A = Awesome
B = Bummer
C = Celebration
Day 3 – Friday, February 1 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – 95 degrees & feels like 102!
La Boca
- A – 9:30 wake up – slept great
- 11:30 – “hop on hop off” Bus Touristico picks up 2 blks from hotel
- $120 pesos (around $24 each) for 24 hrs
- want to go back to La Boca (we were here in 2009) lots of colorful buildings & oversized sculptures of odd looking people
- B – city doesn’t look as pretty – lots of graffiti – dirty
- 1:30 – get to La Boca – walk around – meet nice couple from LA
- lots of outdoor cafes w/live music & couples Tango dancing
- 4:30 – get off bus @stop 15 – not too far from hotel – takes about 20 mins
- B – really too hot for good walk
- 7:00 dinner @ Puerto Cristal in Puerto Madero
Bar Sur Tango
- A – grilled provolone w/oregano & olive oil, spinach, lentil, veggie salad – VG – pink salmon overcooked & Alamos malbec wine – $108
- 9:00 – Bar Sur for Tango – short walk from restaurant (10 blocks)
- A – only 10 tables, very intimate – 2 couples dance, 1 singer, 3 musicians – $126
- 11:00 – take taxi back – $10 seems to be the average to get around town
- A – get to hotel just as rain starts pouring down
FF – (FUN-fact) – Buenos Aires has lots of big grand parks.
FUN:travel – Buenos Aires to Tel Aviv – 71 days
February 3, 2013 by Susan Clarke · Comments Off on FUN:travel – Buenos Aires to Tel Aviv – 71 days
The ABC’s of Argentina
A = Awesome
B = Bummer
C = Celebration
Travel is very personal! We are working on finding the right mix of cruising and land tours that work for us. The best part of cruising is you get to unpack your bags. The best part of land touring is that you get to spend more time with the locals. The worst part is the physical and financial toll of flying out of the country. It has turned into a real hassle these days! That is why we choose to take longer vacations (and because Chris is now retired we can)
- The travel motto is “I want to be surprised, and not pissed off.” And “We are only doing this once.” So we are on a journey to see as much as we can, while we can. Seeing Wonders of the World guide us to many of our destinations.
Day 1 – Wednesday, January 30 – Buenos Aires to Tel Aviv – 71 days – Longest Trip Ever Taken
- 12:43 pm flight to Buenos Aires – 3 hr layover in Houston
Day 2 – Thursday, January 31 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – overcast, hot & humid
- A – all flights on time
- arrive 10:45 am
- B – takes 2 hrs to get through customs & retrieve bags
- taxi from airport takes 45 min – driver has no GPS and can’t find our hotel
- A – booked Urban Suites Recoleta @ Booking.com – only $138
- A – nice big room!
- across from the cemetery where Eva Peron is entombed
- A – lots of outdoor cafes
- B – hot & humid w/overcast skies
- light salad & wine for lunch (dressing tasteless & wine tasty)
- A – take afternoon siesta
- A – dinner @ Fervor recommended by hotel
- A – split white salmon, grilled vegetables, & sorbet – nice malbec $68 US
- 12 midnight take sleeping pill
FF – (FUN-fact) – All restaurants charge for a table. It costs more to sit outside. We paid anywhere from $2.00 to $4.00 per person.
Evita’s Tomb