We disembarked at 8:00AM on Sunday, January 17 to take a bus into town. Here we found very few businesses open so we had a nice brisk
walk from one end of town to the other…window shopping.
This is the city tour bus....no need to take this....you can walk it very quickly
Love this window....E in Spanish is pronounced A
Here, close to the end
of the world…we found lots of clothing and shoe shops…even a formal wear store
with gowns and tuxes.
Summer flowers in Ushuaia
The town is very rugged with stones in the sidewalk and
uneven pavement, created for traction during the winter ice season. I can’t
imagine wearing the stacked shoes and high heels around here without getting a
sprained ankle.
The bus took us at 11:15AM to the airport where the plane took us at 12:30 PM to Buenos
Aires. After a three and a half hour flight, we gathered our luggage, had a
quick salad and sandwich at the Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires while
waiting an hour for a taxi. This is the busy season for Buenos Aires. Locals
citizens are leaving for their two week summer vacation on the 1st
and 15th of each month making the airport crazy with people. We
arrived today when most were trying to get back in time to go back to work on Monday
morning.
After landing at 4:00PM we took a half hour taxi ride to
Maria and Lilly’s three bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of a beautiful old
colonial building in San Telmo, one of the oldest parts of Buenos Aires. Big
cobble stones from long ago formed the streets.
Our fifth floor home in Buenos Aries
Right at the corner of our new
home was the famous Plaza Dorrego Sunday Market. For miles and miles this
street has been shut down every Sunday since the 18th century for
locals to sell everything…. clothing, jewelry, antiques, produce, etc. Larry
and I took a quick look at this incredibly active area before greeting our new
Argentina friends, Maria and Lilly. Music was everywhere. It was like a giant
fair going on. Afterwards we rang the buzzer around 7:30pm. Lilly greeted us at the front door of the
building to let us in and showed us the ancient elevator that I boarded
cautiously with our four pieces of luggage and Larry. It took us ever so slowly
to the fifth floor where Maria ushered us into her three bedroom apartment. It
was so good to finally be at our destination. These ladies were ever so good
to us, giving us so much nice advice about where to go and what to see before they left us on our own.
Larry and I had had
such a big day. We were so ready to fall into the bed for a little R and R. For
some reason, anytime we fly, we are a bit bushed upon getting to our
destination. It must be from the thin air when we are high in the sky...HA! HA!
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