FLYING TO BUENOS AIRES

Fri Eve, 22 Feb 08, Buenos Aires

FLYING TO BUENOS AIRES

Our flight to Buenos Aires
Didn’t really tire us.
Well fed for survival,
We knew upon arrival
We’d see sights to inspire us.

Three-hour flight from Ushuaia. Nice meal on the plane – with metallic silverware. Verse not quite true in Helen’s case. She skipped dinner and napped instead.

Coming from the airport, we passed a really ugly looking slum just before entering the downtown.

Buenos Aires has twelve million residents, 48 districts, and three main sections. Argentina has 38 million inhabitants.

The River Plate next to Buenos Aires is the widest river in the world, 160 miles I think she said. Wider than the Amazon. But it’s not really a river. It’s an estuary. The water is brown from sediment.

Wonderful hotel. Much larger room than the cabin on the ship! Very large, very nice room in fact. Hotel Empirador.

I enjoyed going out to dinner with Jo and Tom at an Italian restaurant two blocks from the hotel. Excellent food. I had steak. The total bill for the three of us was only $44. (We were “on our own” for dinner tonight.) There were several from our Vantage group in the restaurant, and we nearly filled the place. The locals eat dinner very late and hadn’t arrived yet.

Seven bucks an hour to use the Internet in the hotel regardless if you use their computer or your own. Expensive, but about half what I had to pay on the ship.

:-)

Bernie