Today it seemed all of our good weather and luck we had throughout the trip caught back up with us. We got up fairly late, had breakfast, and said our goodbyes to our friends of the past 4 weeks. River Plate (one of the two “big” soccer teams here) was playing a home game in their 75,000 seat stadium. Tickets to the game are a mess as they are sold for 50 pesos with a limit of 2, but somehow large resellers get a hold of thousands of them and resell them for 1,000 pesos and up. We had a connection with a hostel that was supposed to be able to connect us with some decently priced tickets, but once we got there, we were told they were all sold out… Buenos Aires 1.
We wandered around for a little bit. One of the things I always like to do travelling, is try something local from McDonald’s, as it is always different wherever you go in the world. Here in Buenos Aires, one of the things was hamburguesa con huevo (hamburger with egg). It was pretty good.
Our plan for Monday was to hop on a ferry and head across to Colonia, Uruguay for the day. So after getting shut down for soccer, we caught a cab to the ferry terminal to get tickets. Once we got there and waited in line and got to the front, we realized our passports were still at the hotel, and they wouldn’t sell us any… Buenos Aires 2.
Our plan was to race back to the hotel, grab our passports, and head back to the terminal. An hour and two cabs later we were there. And were kindly informed that the computer system goes on “siesta” from 1:00 until 4:00. Thus no tickets for us… Buenos Aires 3.
We took another cab back to the hotel and booked the tickets online at the much poorer “real” exchange rate than the rate we had got our pesos on the black market. Then it was back to the hostel again for soccer tickets as they said they might have a few show up right before the game. They didn’t… Buenos Aires 4.
From that point we kind of gave up on some kind of evening event and started to wander. We got to the Plaza de Mayo and there was the Polermo street market. We had a great time wandering up and down the 20 blocks of market and buying a few things… Chuck & Mike 1.
After many hours and miles on our feet we headed back to our hotel to sit for a bit prior to dinner. We ran into Neil on the way as he was with his group here in Buenos Aires on their last day. After getting to the hotel and relaxing for a bit we headed to the lobby to catch up on emails and Neil was there. All of a sudden he pulled out a bottle of champagne for us… Chuck & Mike 2.
Neil headed off to his last dinner with his group and Mike and I headed separate to find a restaurant, Empire Thai, which we had been looking to try since our last time here. We had it all lined up and walked to it, and when we got there, it was closed. So we headed down the street for a while and hunger took over from good sense and we had some rather mediocre pub food… Buenos Aires 5.
So Mike and I had a losing score for the day, but it still turned out pretty good, and we’re off to Uruguay in the morning.
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