Hola again. Any thoughts of a post-birthday let down were thrown out the window as we hit the grounding running on Friday. It was another holiday in Argentina so it was really hit or miss on what things were open. We were up early today as today was moving day! As in moving from our hotel which was our home the first two days to our airbnb, where we'll stay for the rest of the trip. This also gets us a barrio move as well from San Telmo over to Recoleta. This gives us a whole new area to explore as we haven't been this north in the city yet.
Since we got up early to check out and switch places, it's only appropriate we follow up the move with a power nap. Refreshed and ready to go, we set off for Cementerio de la Recoleta, the famous cemetery in Buenos Aires very popular with the 19th century Argentinians and similar to that in New Orleans for those that have been. Before that however we had a quick lunch at Buller Pub & Brewery. It was a cool industrial looking place with a nice outdoor spot by the cemetery. Since they brew their own stuff and half of the beers for the sampler were out, I just tried their IPA. It was OK but not nearly as hoppy as an IPA should be.
A shot of Buller
After calming our appetites and a bit of our nerves, we headed across the street into the cemetery
Looking down the main path of Cementerio de la Recoleta
This cemetery is very hard to describe. First off it's a weird feeling that you're going to a cemetery as a tourist attraction. It's got to be weird if you have a loved one buried there and people are just walking around snapping photos of monuments. The history side of both of us was absolutely fascinated by everything. There's certainly a few famous folks that call this place home, like Evita, but also random Argentinians. Everyone in there has some kind of story. But the real reason people visit are the mausoleums . The ultimate tribute to yourself in death, these houses are old and new, large and small, some were in pristine condition and some were falling apart. Some just had glass doors and you could see right and and see the caskets just sitting there. The ones that were falling apart, the caskets were about to fall apart as well! It was certainly an experience to undertake. Fun Fact: Some tombs had bells with a string that went into the casket just in case they woke up not dead. It was a lesson learned. If you're interested, check out the wikipedia page to see who calls it home.
Various "house" in the cemetery
There wasn't much else to top that experience so we headed back to our new home to get ready for dinner. On our way back we stopped for more ice cream (we're now up to the 1/2 kilo size), as well as making our first trip to the supermercado. Now that we don't get breakfast delivered to us, we have to make it. We passed our first trip with flying colors with the exception of milk for Jess' tea. Our Spanish teacher, duolingo has failed to teach us what the word for condensed milk because that's what we ended up getting and it was a bit sweet for tea. We got ourselves cleaned up and headed out to dinner.
Happy diners!
Tonight's dinner was a continuation of the celebration from yesterday. This was Jess' 2nd choice for a birthday dinner. UCO is a farm to table style located over in yet another BA barrio, Palermo. We had reservations at 8pm in order to beat the rush that never came. That was fine by me as most of the night we had the outdoor courtyard to ourselves. Our food was delicious and the drinks were great too. Thumbs up to being able to make a proper Old Fashioned. No fruit muddling in this one. Jess had a good looking Mojito as we feasted on pork belly and lamb shoulder. Dessert was once again ice cream (from our 1/2 kilo) Then it was off to bed to tackle the next day of exploration.
-Nick
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