...but since I'm in BA, I figured I'd walk through.

By the way, what's the deal with the creepy, giant stuffed dog?

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Fecha: February 14, 2010 11:23:45 AM GMT-03:00
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Asunto: For Valentine's Day, I took Olivia to estansia so we could become gauchos [pic]

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Rel and I took the 152 bus to La Boca today. We didn't take many pictures because the colorful and safe streets are filled with hawkers of everything, buy specializing in tango. The other parts aren't 'advisable for ladies to walk through,' but we made our way to a nice restaurant away from La Boca Disneyland.

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During our second or third week here, Andrew and I took our first bus trip to the barrio Puerto Madero for the day. Puerto Madero is a beautiful dockside development with ritzy new apartments and some of the rest parillas in Buenos Aires. 

We decided to walk to Palermo Soho for beer, peanuts and steak. On the way we found a great store specializing in mate paraphenalia. After some deliberation ("what type of mate am I?") Andrew picked out a gourd and a bombilla. Then we cruised through the weekend flea market at Plaza Serrano before landing at Sullivans for pints of draft Guiness, bowls of shuckable peanuts ('mani') and Otro Mundo roja, a local artisinal beer that I now adore. First class afternoon!

 

Even a lover of wine like me can start to long for a cold cerveza tirada-draft beer. Andrew and I went to Antares in Palermo last night to do a flight (under $5.50) and eat some bad bar food. Beer 7, food 4, experience fun!

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It's the hot season of polo now in Argentina but the matches keep getting rained out, extending the finals into February is my guess. With no polo, we went to Barrio China for some greasy vegetarian Chinese food and a little supermarket exploration. This arch was the best part.

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I finally bought fruit from a produce stand today. I'm used to supermarket food being pricey here, but my 3 peaches, 2 grapefruits and 20 strawberries were less than 8 pesos.

Here's to summer berry season!

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