A day in the (BA) life.

A day in the (BA) life. We started the day at home with coffee and quiche from a French bakery in the San Telmo Market (not as good as Stephanie's). But pretty darn good, and their breads and canelés are outstanding! The bakery is entirely staffed by young hipsters from France, enjoying their time in BA.

You gotta do laundry sometimes, and today was the day - glad to have a washer/dryer in the apartment.

After several days of cooler gray foggy blah weather, today blossomed sunny with a high of 73. People hit the street for what may be the last few days of Indian Summer. Abram and I each went our own way most of the day, meeting up at home in the late afternoon before heading back out for dinner a few blocks away.

Note the yerba mate.

Many dogs in Buenos Aires.

My destination was the Museo National de Arte Decorativo

https://museoartedecorativo.cultura.gob.ar/ It doesn't open until 1:00 so first a light lunch at a corner cafe - the ubiquitous ham and cheese torta and my favorite coffee drink, a cortado:

Abram went in search of another local sandwich favorite - the choripán. It's grilled chorizo sausage on crusty bread: chori-pan. Often served with chimichurri sauce like this!

Since it's autumn here, the leaves are just beginning to turn; soon about 10 million leaves will be falling. There are so many trees in Buenos Aires! In fact, it was named a Tree City of the World a couple of years ago https://baglobal.buenosaires.gob.ar/en/environmental-protection-buenos-aires-formally-recognized-2020-tree-city-world-1343

There are still many cobblestone streets.

The Decorative Arts Museum is housed in the former residence of a wealthy philanthropist socialite family and is truly palatial. Nice layout showing many of the rooms as they were lived in, along with several rooms dedicated to costumes, furniture and decorative objects. And it's free!

After the museum I hopped on the 110 bus for Barrio Palermo to check out a newish cafe called the Moshu Treehouse. The owners used the gutted interior space of a picturesque old building to make a 3-story cafe/bakery/bar. I enjoyed a kir royale.

By now it was 4pm and time to head home on the 39 bus for a siesta before dinner at 8:00. A picturesque walk from the treehouse to the bus stop.

We had heard that dinner didn't really start here in BA until close to 10:00pm but we've discovered that there's an early seating around 8:30. Many restaurants open at 8:00 and you can generally sneak in without a reservation if you arrive at 7:50. It's fun to watch the places fill up right on cue at 8:30. A few restaurants even open at 7:00, like one of our neighborhood spots, Rodi-Bar. We stumbled into it totally jet-lagged our first night, and it's become a fave.

Tomorrow night we're going downtown to the theater to see a live performance of Tootsie. Should be fun! It's in Spanish of course but hey we know the plot.

Over and out. The next report will be about our two-week getaway to Uruguay!