December 2009
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so the recounting of end of the first day here...
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our first afternoon outing...
So across the street from the hotel is a very upscale mall Patio Bullrich. Many American stores but there was a different more relaxed feel; it lacked the jangly almost aggressive manic bustle that even upscale malls I’ve experienced in America can have, especially this time of year. What struck me as a bit odd was the choice of music which while we were wandering through was jazzy...
where is my spanish phrase book?
A bit rested and (for me at least) in massive need of caffeine we set out to reconnoiter the neighborhood around the hotel Recoleta
It’s a gray day but the rain has stopped, hopefully it is done for the day. On the way in from the airport, it was warm but damp feeling not muggy. Not too bad to walk around in.
Buenos días
Real quick, we got in on time which made it just before 6 eastern time. So it ended up being just over 18 hours from arriving at LGA to leaving the airport here. But we are HERE!
Got to the hotel (more on that in next post) The Caesar Park Buenos Aires very elegent, the room is lovely overlooking a garden.
Had coffee (more on the coffee later) and an overflowing bread and pastry basket in the...
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
we are off....
In Miami, halfway through a three hour layover for our nightflight to Buenos Aires.
Had to walk from one end of this muggy airport to the other and there were no slidewalks until the very last bit.
Dinner was tasty salads and actually an OK screwtop bottle of White Zin.
The flight here was bumpy but worth it for the AMAZING sunset. We dropped through cloud mountains to fly below them and...
today we depart....
After the last few days of pulling together the last few pieces for Mom and getting most everything together for me, now at 8:45, we are both packed and ready to go.
“If adventures will not befall a lady in her own village she must seek them...”
– Jane Austen