2 toTango
Trip Start
Dec 29, 2007
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Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Monday, February 18, 2008
Tango springs to mind when you think of Arg so for Valentines day we stuck with the trend. Possibly the most famous show in Arg is held in EL VIEJO ALMACEN in San Telmo. It's 5* treatment reflected in the price so as a result we were the youngest by a good 30 years & the most prominent accent audible was the 'O My Gawd' twang from nearby tables. A tour bus passes by this haunt & therefore attracts foreigners. After a meal in the restaurant you cross the road to the theatre for the tango show which was first class. It featured lots of musicians, famous Argentine singers & obviously expert dancers; even the boys from Patrick St playing the panpipes got in on the action
D & V @ Tango show
. It was money well spent.Sunny saturday drew us to the Jardin Japones - I expected Derek Mooney to jump out from behind a bush on entry but no it wasn't to be. Costing a fiver (pesos) to enter, it's another scenic green area in the centre of BA. All the goths from outside Tescos in Paul St must have been teleported there for the occasion, not sure what the big attraction was. I've never been to the one in mother Ireland but this was heaped in oriental culture. A Japanese movie was played in a tent, a room above the tea salon serving only oriental produce was full of kids playing a tournament Japanese beat'em up game on an Xbox, groups were gathered round drawing Pokemon like caricatures, non goths wore kimonos carrying eastern umbrellas/fans & hundreds of bonsai trees on sale were scattered round a greenhouse.
An even sunnier sunday had us in upbeat form so naturally we went to the cemetery. No run of the mill home of the dead, Cementerio de la Recoleta, is a sculptors idea of heaven. All the who's who of Argentine society are buried there not surprising when you have to fork out $20k a sq. metre for a burial plot. The majority of gravestones are exhibits worthy of Donatellos hands. 22 ex-presidents & many famous writers are buried there along with historical military figures whose names are streets within BA like Av. Sarmiento & Av. Avellaneda. There is 1 grave which steals the limelight there, Eva Perons. However that of David Alleno is due a mention. The guy worked as the cemetery caretaker & his dream was to be buried there. He saved all his cash for a plot, travelled to Italy to find a guy to design his gravestone & committed suicide to fulfill his destiny. The last observation is the insane number of cats in there, weird. It closes at 6pm, fairly early by BA standards, but understandably because the place is so huge with narrow pathways drawing you into a labyrinth of art, people will either get lost or cause the security guys an age to empty the cemetery.
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