Buenos Aires

Location Description

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Some cool vintage travel posters in our hostel in Buenos Aires.
Home sweet home!
Some really, really good yogurt I wish they sold in the...
Doing a little shopping on Avendida Florida. We were...
Buenos Aires ice cream and gelato is famously good. ...
I was very excited about this ice cream. The best type...
Homer Simpson poster spotted on Calle Florida.
Jay and I go to see the Pink Palace of Evita fame.
Pink palace up close. Sadly not open to the public as it...
Cool statue in the light.
Guards of the Casa Rosada.
It was a hot afternoon.
Jay taking a breather in the afternoon heat.
Sadly don't remember who this guy was. West of the Casa Rosada.
Jay and I spent the twilight hours roaming the...
Simpsons garden gnomes! There were so many interesting...
Che Guevara chucks. Nice.
Havana Club rum. Not going to find that in the States.
Dead animal parts in a market in San Telmo.
Church in San Telmo.
Jay looking at a church in San Telmo.
Just looked like a yummy cafeteria.
Imprisoned poodle. Spotted in San Telmo.
Typical Buenos Aires street scene. Rough around the...
Hanging out near the Obelisco on Avendida 26 de Mayo,...
Cute Reebok commercial featuring a play on Buenos Aires gelato.
Jay hanging out by the obelisco.
The obelisco at night.
John in front of the obelisco at night.
Dinner at a vegetarian organic restaurant in Palermo. ...
Elevator shaft in our hostel.
Jay, on the streets of Buenos Aires.
Jay, hanging out in the Buenos Aires subway, one of the...
Jay in the Buenos Aires subway.
Jay at the Evita museum in Buenos Aires' exclusive...
I really liked this pantry in the Evita museum.
Everything is labeled, even Yerba, for Yerba Mate, the...
Photograph of refrigerators being built in a factory in...
Jay and I get lunch after a long morning of museum-ing.
Close up of our pie. Really decent pizza.
And next we went to go get ice cream.
Who would have thought Blockbuster would be a thing, in...
Ice cream at Persicco.
Jay, in sweet rapture.
Jay had actually said he didn't want ice cream before we...
Yay for creamy sugary treats made from dulce.
Uh oh I hope it's not getting in my beard!
Ingenious! Persicco even installed sinks along one wall...
Ice cream delivery scooters. Apparently if you want an...
Bizarre Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina...
The feeling of disrepair at the library was made to feel...
Snack time!
This guy doesn't look like he misses many meals!
Next stop was the Cementerio de la Recoleta, an amazing...
Strange to see so many well kept up mausoleums as well...
Jay surveying the surroundings at Cementerio de la Recoleta.
Creepy glass window covered with cobwebs on the front...
Cemeteries are creepy!
Self portrait in a mirror of a mausoleum.
There were lots of creepy spooky photograph opportunities here.
Pretty fancy!
Yep, there are dead people inside those. Way creepier...
Jay, wandering the grounds.
Architecturally, this cemetery was a bit of a hodgepodge.
Jay, looking at some dead people.
I think Jay liked this particular mausoleum.
The symbolism is overwhelming.
Many of the grave sites had fallen into disrepair.
Crazy wrought iron wreath.
Jay photographing something or another.
Pretty great bronze door.
This guy had an even better beard than me!
I wonder what the blue glass is for.
This translates as "I shall not completely die" and is...
Stairs with dead people at the bottom.
A lot of the mausoleums were just fasçades with nothing...
Lots of coffins.
Cool window shape.
Jay, taking a breather, with Buenos Aires' Recoleto in...
Some mausoleums even had wildflowers growing out of...
This place was big. At this point, we wanted to just...
This crumbling tenement seemed out of place in this...
Finally we find Evita's grave. Not surprisingly it was...
Close up of several of the plaques on Evita's mausoleum....
Another cool skull and crossbones, or cross half-bones.
Crowd milling around Evita's grave.
Neat cypress trees, that symbolize the spirit rising to...
Very Tim Burton-esque statue.
Jay, taking a breather. We've seen about as much as we...
Neat statues.
This was a fun place to take pictures. It would have...
Another cool view of these same statues.
More rows of graves.
After leaving the cemetery, Jay and I took a long walk...
Next we passed by this enormous sculpture called...
Wow, my beard used to be so big.
Floralis Genérica as we start to lose sunlight. ...
Funny looking tropical bird sitting on the edge of...
Bird flying around in the giant flower.
If you look closely, you can see our reflection in...
Jay and I walked by Canal Siete (Channel 7) one of the...
Finally, we arrived at MALBA. Outside MALBA was a neat...
Some non-latin American art in MALBA. Picture...
Flash forward to 3am or so that same night: after a nap,...
John and Jay with the Buenos Aires school teachers that...
Jay and I had planned to stay until things wound down...
Even turning on the fluorescent lights didn't help to...
This couple was very talented, and good looking.
After hailing a cab back to our hostel and getting a...
Not to be defeated by the rain, we ducked into a Havanna...
Cue sad trombone tone. Patagonia is ony open from 10-1...
It was a rainy, rainy afternoon.
More pictures of Jay in the rain.
Here was a memorial to the Fauklands War with the U.K....
Some tower near the Retiro train station, that was...
Jay and I were both about to fall on our noses from...
And enjoy he did.
Jay looks hungry!
A couple seated near us ordered a parrillada para dos,...
Jay doesn't like onions so this was my doing only. Wow,...
Buenos Aires washed bright and shiny by the rain.
Boarding our flight to Ushuaia. It's a 4+ hour flight...
It was a brand new good looking Boeing 737.
Jay and I settle into our beautiful brand-new...