After three very full days visiting parks, taking Tango lessons, walking the central historic district, touring museums, Dianne and I realized we needed to slow down. So the past two days we have taken a more relaxed approach to the city. Each day we slept later and then spent the afternoon attending a craft fair. Saturday it was in La Boca, home of the Italian immigrants (who seem to have been replaced by Peruvians). Sunday it was San Telmo, with their Antiques Fair and street performers. In La Boca we ate a leisurely lunch at an outside table of a Resto-Bar and watched two Tango Shows being presented, one across the street and the other down the street, by performers for other restaurants. Dianne had delicious beef medallions in wine & mushroom sauce and Steve had ravioli with meat sauce, and both enjoyed a a glass of full-bodied Malbec. Then on Sunday lunch was a very tasty, and very filling (Dianne could only eat half of hers) Steak Milanese consumed in the marvelous Bar El Federal (pictured above), dripping with ambiance and old Buenos Aires atmosphere. The days were both filled with bright sunshine, the weather could not have been more perfect. We returned to our apartment tired each evening, yet not worn out. They were more like the days a resident enjoys on the weekend instead of the hectic days a tourist feels driven to cram full of every possible experience available in a city before one must leave, quite possibly never to return. Tomorrow promises to be another day similar to the last two as we will venture downtown briefly, but also spend time preparing for our trip this week to the jungle in northeast Argentina and the spectacular Iquazu Falls.
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