Wednesday 18th January 2012
BA is a city of contrasts: old and new; pale and dark; clean and grubby; hugely expensive and ridiculously cheap; modern and oh, so behind the times. I could go on….but you get the picture. I wanted to put fast /slow, but couldn’t think of one example of fast! Lots for slow though – breakfast service, wi-fi connection and credit card transactions to name only three, talk about a manana mentality!
BA is a city of contrasts: old and new; pale and dark; clean and grubby; hugely expensive and ridiculously cheap; modern and oh, so behind the times. I could go on….but you get the picture. I wanted to put fast /slow, but couldn’t think of one example of fast! Lots for slow though – breakfast service, wi-fi connection and credit card transactions to name only three, talk about a manana mentality!
But a really great city, with another wow moment round each corner.
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Upmarket breakfast
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Bill - written on a napkin!
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 Still loved - used to be loved.(Religion is still 'big' here) |
We walked the streets of San Telmo, Centre, La Boca/Caminito and the newly redeveloped high end real estate Puerto Madero, and when we come back after the chilly south, we’ll move to the Palermo
On the way to the city centre we came across this great bookshop. Traditional in every way, the purchase of a HK$ 30 tango poster took around 10 minutes, involving much use of pens and carbon paper, with seemingly no interference from computers.
It's also a city of great contrasts, as the next district from San Telmo is the famous La Boca, home of the Boca Juniors foorball team and, according to Lonely Planet, a place where tourists should go in fear of their lives. It seemed safe enought to us and the Caminito district is a fabulous amalgam of colour and edginess, with some amazing street art.
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 and this chap leads us neatly into:
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