I had intended the previous post to be my final entry for this trip, but we had time to get out in Buenos Aires before we flew home and some of the photos I wanted to enter in a blog post so I would remember.
This photo was taken in front of our hotel and it shows the Women's Bridge.
Cindy at a nearby steak house before we took on some very large pieces of meat.
There is a great deal of political activism in Buenos Aires and these are two recent representations. The first memorialized the COVID deaths of the city (the rocks in remembrance of individuals) and the charge that officials were vaccinated long before the citizens. The second is from the Plaza de Mayo (very close to the COVID rocks) and represents the white head scarves worn by the Mothers of the Disappeared in the location where they frequently marched.
Our hotel was also near the location of many government buildings and these soldiers were marching to change the guard near the government buildings.
Probably the reason I had to add a few more pictures was because of the spectacular house colors in the neighborhoods. Buenos Aires is a massive place with a population near 14 million in the metro area. There are many tenant neighborhoods of tenement housing some of multiple similar bland-looking flats (apartments) and some of colorful mashed-together homes. Lots of graffiti art
Not Messi (he is in Florida), but you find the images of Messi and Maradona everywhere in Argentina.
A barista handing over my final coffee in Argentina. I was lazy and did not find a coffee shop in Ushuaia so I could claim I had coffee in the southernmost city in the world, but I did get this photo in Buenos Aires. I do have a shot of the southernmost US coffee shop (from Hawaii), but I should have made the effort to get off the boat and add to my collection.
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