We have adopted a relaxed life style for the last couple of days - a change from the busy schedule on board Ocean Endeavour.
We've walked a lot around the city and the dikes of Puerto Madero
We also visited the Evita Museum and the corvette Uruguay which was the Argentine's Antarctic supply ship from 1903 when they took over the research station on Laurie Island until she was retired from service in 1926.
We spent part of a day exploring the Costanera Sur - a 350 hectare eco reserve which sits between the City and the River Plate. We were there for about three hours until it got too hot, and we walked around 11km in all – there is a wide variety of birds, plants and butterflies. They claim over 300 bird species – think we saw about 30.
By the time we were on our way home we felt that we had definitely earned the cold draft beer.
We've walked a lot around the city and the dikes of Puerto Madero
We also visited the Evita Museum and the corvette Uruguay which was the Argentine's Antarctic supply ship from 1903 when they took over the research station on Laurie Island until she was retired from service in 1926.
We spent part of a day exploring the Costanera Sur - a 350 hectare eco reserve which sits between the City and the River Plate. We were there for about three hours until it got too hot, and we walked around 11km in all – there is a wide variety of birds, plants and butterflies. They claim over 300 bird species – think we saw about 30.
By the time we were on our way home we felt that we had definitely earned the cold draft beer.
We had a dinner at Franca - on the waterfront - excellent meat as usual but not hugely inspiring otherwise.
On Saturday, we met up with Sue, Ally, James and Lynn for dinner at Fervor in Recoleta - definitely our best restaurant meal in BA. They were on their way back to SA after two weeks hiking in Patagonia which sounded like a bit of hard core hiking. Lucky that our paths crossed and great to have the chance to catch up before we see them again in 6 weeks or so in SA.
Now we are packing again for our flight back to Edinburgh this morning - it'll be good to get home but the temperature difference may be a bit of a shock.
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