Saturday 1 December 2012

Final report from Buenos Aires

Final word from BA which is quite humid and hitting temperatures of between 75 and 80......dreadful, what's it like back home :)
Further wanderings around BA found this graffiti near Le Boca district, which is pretty rough if you stray away from the restaurants and the tourist area.






A visit to the cemetery at Recoleta found Eva Perons mausoleum amongst the mega rich families from days gone by. There are some incredible tombs continually being tended to.



A visit to the National Polo Championships was a superb day out. The horses are beautifully kept.


Below is one of the many street artists performing for a few Pesos. Brian I immediately thought of you when I saw this fellow. Not as good as the three amigos in Rome, made me chuckle.!!


Well farewell to BA. Left the coach station on a luxury coach as the truck is still not in the country. Turned out to be 22 hrs travelling through the night. Got pulled over by the army and all passports checked and coach searched.......adios. Continued and arrived in Puerto Madryn, raining and a cold wind. Four mile walk attempting to stay awake and a visit to the Eco centre and whale / dolphin information area, which was very well laid out and informative. They had a watch tower with very comfortable seats, thought we would just sit for a while, fatal.....fell asleep for about an hour much to the amusement of the other visitors. They thought the whales made deep loud noises ha ha.

Today we're out for twelve hours in the marine national park whale / dolphin / penguin / sea lion etc spotting so hoping its going to be a successful trip. Till the next time.
Tony x








4 comments:

  1. How awful for you! -5 here last night :))

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  2. Rugby update....... England 38 - New Zealand 21....... Superb win and to make it even better Wales lost again. No reply from Butty, I wonder why!!! Great posts Tony, keep them coming.

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  3. yes Tony it takes me back as well,love the action picture of polo pony great news about the rugby catch u laters bri

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  4. Hi Anthony, great photos. Ur getting clever!! Loving the blogs, could type to you all day but alas I have some work to do... Just had a weekend with the girls in Bath. Loved it. All's well. x

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