Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Steaking out Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is a place of hissing buses, friendly stray dogs roaming in packs and seemingly disposable plastic toilet seats...but more than anything Buenos Aires is a city to indulge in beef steak.



I dont know what precisely they do with it between paddock and plate, but it is, without doubt, the best steak in the world...and I say that as an Australian who has a lot of time for our own beef cows and farmers.


Buenos Aires is also an intriguing place with its architecture...while some buildings in the city are immaculate and appear to be something out of the beginning of last century Europe, others are little more than the ramshackle you would find in a run-down, depressed city.



Unfortunately, I probably didnt take the amount of photos in BA as I had hoped...it was just a little bit too difficult to be swinging an expensive camera around on the streets, knowing that you would then become target no.1 for the local pickpocket/street thief...


Plaza de Mayo (one of the main squares for the frequent...hourly perhaps...demonstrations against this that or the other)...







Pigeon lady...





Looking down one of BA's wide avenues, Avenida de Mayo...some these avenues have countless lanes...well actually, I did count the widest one...I think it had 20 lanes....




Apart from the countless stray dogs, there appears to be a tendency for a high ratio of dog ownership in BA. Hence the need for the multi-leaded dog walker....( I counted 14 dogs)...









I stood for quite some time wondering why you would need so many doors (6) so close together? I am still not quite sure...and it was not an uncommon thing in BA...






Next stop: Ecuador

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