Final Day - Buenos Aires

Wanting to see the Evita Museum, we took a tube to the zoo station and Shelene took in the zoo while we went to the botanical gardens.
Followed this with the Evita museum – impressive building, her clothing, shoes, handbags, and accessories. Historical video footage and the Peron Cadillac.

From here 10 blocks to the art gallery area. The modern gallery closed for two hours as we arrived so went on to the fine arts building and were wowed by traditional impressionists, dutch/european artists and also other contemporaries of these. A room of Degas, Manet’s, Monet’s etc. A gallery map would have been appreciated as it’s a great collection.

Taking pictures of a bizarre balloon seller on the main highway we were politely asked to move off the set. An actor and a film crew filming a commercial in the middle of the city.

Past the BA university (university education itself is free) and onto the Recoleta cemetery. What a truly amazing place – one moderate sized block but so many elaborate family plots (tombs). Found a number of military generals and other notary persons with very ornate family crypts. Found Evita’s family crypt and her memorial plaques.

A little overwhelming but very enjoyable. Struck up a conversation with a very strong woman from the historical cemetery preservation group. Would loved to have continued the chat – an interesting address.

The city has a great feel and some interesting sites. There are a large number of dogs, many under the control of dog walkers – the only downside being no requirement to pick up dog poo. It’s good to watch the step particularly in parks. We did see the odd dog tangle.

The other impact is a trend shown by a few young women of wearing warehouse grade patterned gumboots as street boots – noticeable and different.

The traffic rules appear random. Many more lanes seen than marked on the road, obeying traffic lights appears optional, parking is difficult – the best improvement is using yellow no drive lines as a parking space. The logic seems to be - if you can’t drive there then you must be able to park.

An all too short sojourn in a fascinating city.