Our Last Day!

We'll we've been doing the tourist thing right up to the end. Today we blitzed the bits of Buenos Airies that we hadn't seen, and tonight Gav is leaving me to go and watch Boca play in the Copa Libatadores.

The bottom picture is one of the graves in the Recoletta cemetry. It's like a small city. When Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world in the late nineteenth and early tewntieth centuries, when rich people died they liked to make a statement about themselves by building these flamboyant graves. Some of them were bigger than our house in Enfield. This one is built in the style of a small church, but there were all sorts of designs. Gav fancies a pyramid topped with a dome. It was quite creepy because they don't actually bury the people they just place the coffins in these houses for everyone to see, forever - very strange. Eva Peron (Evita) is burried here too, but her grave was fairly low key.

The middle pic is of Avenida 9 de Julio, it's 18 lanes wide and claims to be the widest road in the world. It's no fun to cross.

And the top pic is of a rose sculpture. It's really good it opens in the morning then moves around to face the sun all day then closes at night like a real flower.

We'll both be sorry to leave Argentina tomorrow, not just because it's then end of our amazing trip, but it's been a fabulous country in it's own right. The people are friendly (not very efficient, but friendly) the scenery is some of the best and most varied we've seen and the food and wine are outstanding - we'll be boring everyone about the size and taste of Argie steak for a long time. It's also the most similar country in South America to home, so it already feels like we're on our way back.

Anyway I'll say goodbye, Gav is going to do a couple more entries, but that's it from me. I'll see you all soon.