Buenos Aires part 2

Yesterday I got up early to go on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Tigre, which is about an hour north of BA by train. I went with Surbhi and Eamonn, who are an American doctor and an Irish teaching advisor that I met at my hostel. The interesting thing about Tigre is the delta region that surrounds it - it's a bit like Venice, in that it's criss-crossed by rivers, and the only way to get around is by boat. Here's a pic of Surbhi and Eamonn at Tigre, and below is another of me and Surbhi.

After we got back from Tigre, a group of us met to drink a couple of bottles of Malbec, and we then went out to dinner at a local steak restaurant. There were six of us - Surbhi, Eamonn, two Brazilians called Eduardo and Sandra, me, and a crazy American called Jed, who told us that he's travelling around the world on the proceeds of a law suit that he won against his former employers, who sacked him when he told them he'd been diagnosed with colon cancer. Without asking any of us, Jed proceeded to order two US$100 bottles of wine (the most expensive on the menu by about a factor of six). In fairness to him, he did pay for the wine when the bill came, but he wouldn't have been very popular otherwise. After the meal we went to a tango show, eventually returning to the hostel at about 3am.

Today I had a more low key day, due to utter exhaustion. In the morning I went for a walk around San Telmo with Surbhi until she had to go to the airport to catch her flight back to New York. Then in the afternoon I walked around Buenos Aires for a couple of hours - there are a few pics I took here, here and below.

Tomorrow I leave Buenos Aires for Córdoba.