We arrived in Buenos Aires for a longer stay with no real plan except for trying the meat and finding a place to do laundry. However, I did have a list of special things Emilia talked about in our podcast discussion.
First, let me say this: She wasn’t exaggerating. I literally had pizza everyday in Argentina and it was excellent. In fact, on the way home from Uruguay, we took a cab from the ferry to El Cuartito to eat pizza again before continuing to the airport for our flight home! The Italian influence in Argentina was certainly real. It was clear in the food, but even clearer in the “Italian-gestured Spanish” everyone spoke there!
We also tried faina at several spots. I’m not sure how to describe it, but it’s basically a chickpea dough that is somewhere between a pizza crust and a naan. Seasoned right, you just eat it plain. Also really great…. Especially for people that don’t eat cheese.
I did visit an Estancia and got a much better sense of how the change of pace from the city was something people do in Argentina. I have a few photos from that day in here. Some of the performance is in the other post.
We basically walked for miles in the city everyday. However, the craziest decision was the 4 hour walking tour we did on the hottest day of our visit. That was a terrible idea. Our favorite neighborhood was probably La Boca. It had a different vibe than other parts of the city and we ended up walking all the way back to the City Center from there. If “El Centro” is New York, La Boca felt like the Village. It “broke away” briefly and the central government was not having any part of that. However, the graffiti in the area (the cover photo) still remembers…
Buenos Aires is a massive city that was fairly affordable and easy to get around. If you like NYC, we think it felt quite similar.
They certainly loved these two guys in Buenos Aires
