Sunday Jan 27th in Buenos Aires

Well our last full day in Buenos Aires has come to an end and as usual we had a great day.

The high temp today was 29 degrees with a humidity of 77%  so it felt like 35 degrees. I am writing this at 10 PM and it is still 28 degrees which is perfect for walking in (which we did, of course).

The heat, and the continual walking has taken its' toll on us. Only 12.5 kms today and we took a long break in late afternoon to just relax in our air conditioned apartment. Caro has developed a weird blister UNDER one of her toenails which had gotten big enough to push up her toenail causing great pain. Yuck!  A little needle work on the blister relieved the pressure. Weird location for a blister, I think.

OK, my plan for this morning was to catch the metro and go to the end of the line and then catch a taxi to go the next 25ish kilometres to a place called Tigre ( located in the delta of the Parana River). We walked to the Teatro Colon (Columbus Theatre-the opera house we toured several weeks ago) to get the metro. Because the metro entrance was not open, Caro (bless her heart) decided to ask a nearby tour guide about getting to Tigre. He informed us that there was a much better, and much cheaper way to do so. So....we caught a taxi and for about $10 we were taken to the train station the guide mentioned. The "train" turned out to be just like our LRT.  For about $1.25 each we took a 20 kilometre train ride straight to Tigre. The taxi  would have been about $40 minimum.

Tigre is a delta town where many houses have been built on the numerous islands created by the river. Incidentally the river has about the same flow as the Mississippi River so it is huge.

We took an hour plus boat ride through some of the numerous channels. Because it is summer here there were numerous boats on the canals,people swimming in the muddy water, and others enjoying their docks. 

The blue dot is where our Air BNB is located and Tigre is located in the top half of the photo.

In many ways this place is like a "very" poor man's Fort Lauderdale. There are numerous canals with the difference being the cabins/houses are regular type and most people have small motor boats or use kayaks and other types of rowing boats.

After our boat ride we had a bite to eat and then walked about a kilometre to see the mansion below (there are quite a few on the mainland-just across a major canal from the places we toured earlier). The mansion is now a museum but we skipped on that.

We decided to head back early because on the earlier taxi ride we went right by the River Plate soccer stadium (the place where the soccer riots occurred that I mentioned yesterday). The taxi driver informed us that there was a game tonight. Even though it was a different team coming in to play we didn't want the grief of being near the stadium when the fans were streaming in. Our train station was extremely close and we were worried about the traffic and also taxi availability.

We got back with no issues and spent a few hours recuperating. At eight PM we went for out for supper. I wasn't very hungry but Caro wanted a good meal. We ordered a sea food dish and a bottle of wine (it is hard not to order wine when the cost is the equivalent of $6.78 for the bottle!). We had debated earlier if we should go to the soccer game at River Plate but I was concerned about getting home at a late hour. Our waiter at our supper said it was good we didn't go as we would have been hassled by the fans as we were tourists.

We watched the end of the soccer game on TV and when I went to pay the bill I asked the cashier and waiter if they were River Plate or "Boca" fans (the team I talked about yesterday). They said they liked  Boca, and then they asked if I liked Boca or River Plate. I'm no fool!!!  I like Boca!!!

We walked down to Teatro Colon and the streets in the area to look at the lights and were back here by 10 PM.