We walked a few blocks to the huge "July 9th" avenue and walked around looking for a currency exchange . Finding one, we went inside to exchange $60 American dollars into pesos. The exchange rate at most places is 36 pesos for dollar (the actual exchange rate is 38/dollar). This place took our money,asked if we had bigger bills rather than a series of 5's and 10's and since we didn't they said they could only give us 33 pesos per dollar. Hmmmm well,OK (grumble,grumble). In order to conclude the transaction they needed ID. We showed them Caro's Alberta driving licence (nope); how about a scanned picture of my passport (nope); they asked do we have a photocopy of the passport? Really ??? Seriously-like we carry around a photocopy with us. Jeesh. We just asked for our money back and we carried on.
We know that we shouldn't really use street money exchangers but we thought to give it a try. The first one we saw we told him we had $60 US to exchange so he lead us to a money exchange kiosk and for a service charge of about $1.50 CDN we got our money exchanged with absolutely no grief. Their exchange rate....36 pesos!! Sweet!
We took the Subte (their subway) up to Plaza Italia with the idea of walking to the Rose gardens which is supposed to be extremely nice. We did a lot of walking to get to these gardens only to discover they were closed on Mondays. Nice series of parks though!
Brutally hot today.It is a topic of conversation with many people
The heat has been oppressive at times and we decided to come back to the apartment.; clean up; go for supper; then get ready for our 6 PM pick up (fingers crossed the taxi lady will show up!)
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