After waiting until evening we headed off for dinner. While we were walking down Av Florida (a pedestrian walk) to find a parrillas (steakhouse) we found a cafe with a saxophone player outside so decided to stop for a bottle of wine at a cafe and enjoy the music and watch people. After staying there for a bit we found a good parrillas for a steak with malbec for dinner.
The steaks were phenomenal!!!! They had so much flavour. They were only salted before grilled over hot coals and you could taste nothing more than the fresh, grass-fed beef. After dinner (which was $75 for steaks and a bottle of wine) we wandered and found a pub with a patio for a couple of drinks before heading into Club Raw. Being a Sunday night after midnight, there wasn’t too much happening, so after a beer we headed back to the hotel and called it a night.
This morning, we slept in for a bit before getting breakfast at the hotel and heading out for the day. We walked down to the passenger port where you can take ferries to Uruguay (something we are considering when we are back here after the Antarctic portion of the trip). We continued down a concrete boardwalk past an ecological reserve where there were small food kiosks that were prepping prior to lunch and the smells of churrizo and steak were fantastic. We cut back into the Puerto Madero neighbourhood and got back to the old port district.
In Puerto Madero was the interesting blend of old and new. The old port cranes and warehouses beside the new Puente de la Mujer bridge.
The bridge is automated and pivots perpendicular to the shore to allow taller ships and barges to pass. Right beside it was the Museo Fragrata Sarmiento which is an 85m sailing vessel that was part of the Argentinian navy from 1899 to 1937. A 26-sail ship plus coal fired engines which held a great notion of the transition from old to new world.
After fully exploring the open portions of the ship we stopped for some empañadas and beer. The amazing thing here is beer comes in 1 litre bottles.
We worked our way back towards the hotel and stopped in a cafe for a bottle of malbec. After enjoying the wine in air conditioning we took a stop in the Museo de Armas an arms museum that had a better collection of swords, guns, and other weapons than I have ever seen.
It was great to see the history from the initial Spanish settlers through the war of independence to the Falkland War and how some military equipment has transitioned a lot while others remains very similar. We picked up a bottle of wine from a liquor store and headed back to the hotel to get packed and prepped for our early flight into Pategonia tomorrow.
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