Buenos Aires revisited

Today, I wanted to revisit the sights from 16 years ago. It started with a walk to San Telmo but I didn’t see much as I had walked along a street parallel to the two with more things of interests. It was too early to take coffee in the peaceful square so I took a taxi to La Boca.

The famous colourful houses of La Boca had been sub-bleached and faded over the years. In a few more years, they could be pastel!

The weather was cold wiith some chilly breeze but still sunny and pleasant. I felt that I could walk forever without getting sweaty and uncomfortable.

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I must have bumped the timezone setting on my watch forward an hour and thought I was running late for my date with Robin to walk around Recoleta cemetery. As it turned out I had more time than that and took a small lie down for 20 minutes before walking along Florida pedestrian mall all the way to the Sofitel.

At the cemetery, we found Eva Peron’s tomb (Familia Duarte) quite easily. With that sorted,we wandered around admiring the grandeur of some tombs while feeling sorry for the departed whose once-glorious tombs are now in near ruins. Some of the covers had sunken in to expose the weathered and holey coffins.

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Robin accompanied me back to Avenida de Mayo where he lunched at La Junt 1810 while I had a snack. I grabbed dinner near the hotel.

It was a nice relaxing day revisiting the sights; there’s certainly less pressure to do things when in a city when one isn’t a first time visitor.