Tango madness

Last Tuesday we found ourselves wondering what we should do with the rest of our summer vacation. We looked online for good deals on airfares and at 1:30 we booked a couple of tickets to Buenos Aires. By 2:00 we were locking up the apartment and heading out for a week of fun in the Argentine sun! We both fell madly in love with Buenos Aires, as I imagine most visitors do. The architecture is amazing, and from the narrow little streets we looked like the typical tourists with our noses pointed directly up in the air, ogling the design and character of the old buildings. We crammed everything we could into our first few days. We visited the famous Recoleta Cemetery (which was amazing), toured through grand cathedrals, visited phenomenal museums that were chalk-full of pieces from Monet, Manet, Renoir, El Greco, Picasso, van Gogh... the list goes on and on! I've also wanted to visit Uruguay since we got to South America, so after some serious campaigning, I convinced Brett to board a high speed ferry to Uruguay, where we ended up staying for 3 days.


We returned for one final day in Buenos Aires. We spent some time being seriously entertained at the San Telmo Sunday Fair, where street performers pack the streets and antique vendors push their goods. We checked out a neighborhood called La Boca, which is famous for its super colorful buildings and sidewalk cafes where tango dancers perform all afternoon. The band pictured below was performing on the street in San Telmo. They were incredible musicians who drew a huge crowd. It was inspiring to see funky young musicians putting a new twist on the tango scene.


For our last night, we splurged on a tango show which was worth every penny. We weren’t quite ready to say goodbye to Buenos Aires yet, so we hunted down a little Spanish tapas bar that had been promoting its Sunday night Flamenco dancer. Brett loved this damp, dark little basement bar…I think he was feeling very reminiscent of his travels in Spain. The two flamenco dancers were absolutely unbelievable. We have no immediate plans to return to Buenos Aires, but we’re already looking forward to our next trip there, whenever it may be!