This year’s big trip was to Argentina and Chile. It broke down into 4 main parts:
Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Santa Rita + Vicinity, and Explora Patagonia.
JAN 4 – Arrival
Lethy and I flew in overnight and arrived to the hotel just in time to catch a late walking tour of the aristocratic part of town.
Our tour guide (BA Free Tours) Maggie was great and recommended a nice local place – La Dorita – for dinner which was a great value and good steak.
The wine was not bad either!
JAN 5 – Walking the City, San Telmo Market
Our 2nd day we did a self walking tour through the government district and all the way to the San Telmo Sunday Market. Lots of neat hand crafts and plenty of junk. Also, pickpockets everywhere.
We had a really unspectacular lunch along the way and then a decent but overpriced dinner at Nazarenas. The wines were nice though:
JAN 6 – Cemetary
We spent most the day touring the Recoleta Cemetery…
The varied architecture is really interesting to see all in one place.
“It smells like something died here….”
Evita’s grave is actually not as crazy as I expected at all…
We had dinner at El Establo. Best steak dinner we had. Simple place, Spanish owner and style. First wine was a bit of a dud.
Second wine was nice.
JAN 7 – Storms and Frank + Magda arrive
Heavy thunderstorms in the morning kept us indoors. Magda and Frank arrived mid day and we went to our “watch people” lunch spot down Florida street.
I used the indoors time and afternoon to get caught up on some work.
For dinner we met with Burt Ross and his wife Joan at iLatina – billed to be the best restaurant in BA.
It did not disappoint, the food was very interesting and the wine pairings were pretty good. We were definitely the loudest table and that is an accurate gauge of how good a time we had.
