A Short Tour of Buenos Aires

March 6, 2012

Having already flown from Sacramento to Los Angeles and thence to Houston, David and I are anticipating another ten-hour plane ride to the capital of Brazil.  That's twice as long a flight as any that I have incurred previously.

David at the Houston airport

An Argentine gymnastics team sports its "Houston Invitational" T-shirts

A flight cancellation has forced us to spend the night in a city of thirteen million people.  There is not enough time to run downtown and get tango lessons, so a three-mile loop walk from our hastily arranged hostel will have to suffice.  Our tour reveals some fascinating scenes from the barrio:

Tacky art work

Typical cobblestone street

Some sort of altercation

A fancy church

Monument to the nation's independence

The balcony where Peron and Madonna stood

A visiting "dignitary"

This one is forty feet high

Store window

What a fascinating collection of local art!  I could spend a lot of time here just taking photographs, but no; we'll be flying south to Bariloche tomorrow.