Happy New Year!
Wherever you were, whoever you were with and whatever you did we hope you had a good Christmas and new year. We were in Buenos Aires where we rented an apartment for the week. It was great – we could unpack all our clothes, fill up our own fridge, and relax on our own sofa.
Enjoying a kitchen without other peoples dirty pots and pans!
We decided a turkey dinner didn´t quite fit with the heat and humidity of Buenos Aires so instead we chilled ourselves a bottle of champagne and headed out on a christmas picnic. On boxing day we kept up the christmas spirit with a trip to the cinema to watch Scrooge in digital 3D. Unfortunately in our excitement we forgot to check the language and had to sit through the entire film in Spanish – at least the 3D special effects were good!
We used the normal void between Christmas and new year to explore the city.
Puerto Madero
Plaza de Mayo
Street art, San Telmo
Antiques, San Telmo market
Browsing at San Telmo antiques market
Floralis Generica (The petals even close at night!)
Evita´s Grave, Recoleta Cemetery
Recoleta Cemetery
Impressive graves at Recoleta Cemetery
Madres de Plaza de Mayo
I had hoped to watch some futbol while in Argentina but unfortunately the season finished in mid December so I had to be happy with just a tour of the Boca Juniors stadium (Maradona´s old club). Rach didn´t understand the passion and history involved, so mumbling something about not paying good money to look at an empty stadium, went off for a wander around the colourful streets of La Boca instead!
Boca Juniors stadium
Colourful La Boca
La Boca
On New Years Eve we splashed out on a nice restaurant and wined and dined our way into 2010. We hope you have all enjoyed the blog so far, please keep the comments coming and we will see you later this year!
Going out for new year
Hi Rob and Rachel – Happy New Year to you both. May it be as exciting as 2009 for you. Glad to hear you dined in style – Dad and I celebrated in our usual manner – after a week of eating too much chocolate we were both asleep by 10.30 p.m!! Trust you are going to learn to Tango while you are in Argentina! Roll on the next blogs – we are looking forward to them. Love Mum
Thanks Mum, I´ll send you some more pics of our new years dinner soon. And i think it is a big fat no on learning Tango!
Happy New Year Rach and Rob! Still loving the blog. Just got back from a week in Devon – we rented also rented a place over NY – although was a 6 bedroom riverside house as there was 10 of us! After seeing all your pictures and in an attempt to improve my on photography skills have started a photography course – which reminds me, I still need to cash your cheque for the wedding photo’s
x
The money is yours – if the bank will cash it!
Happy New year you two ( Big kiss for Rae X). Boca Jnrs stadium, a flat, going out for posh nosh, what kind of roughing it, is that Rod??? !!! Sounds more like home from home Keep well Dad xx
PS……. got the webcam sorted Rae look forward to next call
Happy new year!!!
Going back to work is so hard, I thought I would have a look at your blog for see some exotic destinations pictures. Looks like you’re having a great time. Lucky you!
Happy 2010!
Happy New Year. Glad to see you managed to find some time to relax in the midst of your hectic schedule of enjoying yourselves.
Big news here is that David Cameron and Des O’Connor got hitched in a civil ceremony last weekend. Who’d have thought?
Good photos as always, Rachel.
Take care.
San Telmo looks amazing – glad you had fun New Year. Can’t wait to read more of your adventures in 2010! x