Have met up with four friends (Bren, Dave, Eddie & Sav) down here who have established themselves as portenos (Buenos Aireans) since arriving a couple of weeks ago. Luckily enough I live just around the corner from them, so have been on the booze more or less all week.
Yesterday we ventured out to Recoleta to see the cemetary there. It´s a pretty impressive place, a bit like Pére Lachaise in Paris, also with its fair share of paddies... There were loads of sepulchres etched with O´Flaherty, O´Brien etc. I´d say there are more Murphy´s here than in Glasnevin.
Also went to see the grave of Evita Peron, whom the more informed of you might remember as Madonna in Evita. Still haven´t really copped on to what exactly her story is, but she was the missus of Juan Peron, long-time president here and seems to have been a pretty popluar person (although apparantly she was a bit of a bitch as well... depends who you´re talking to).
After that we went to this "Parilla" or steakhouse and had a tonne of sirloin and 14 bottles of tinto. We stayed in the restaurant for about 10 hours and had a great night.
Am still living in the hostel but hope to sort something else out on Monday when I start my Spanish course on Monday. Am going to buy a card reader and will then lash a couple of photos up.
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