Living here for three months was easy, leaving here on Easter Sunday feels a little more difficult.
Three months of summer weather, strolling through one of the most fascinating cities, exploring a little more of Argentina, listening to spirited folkloric music and watching just as spirited dancing, enjoying local cuisine and wines, participating in some festivals, and - of course - learning more and dancing more Tango.
On Easter Sunday it will be: Hasta Luego Buenos Aires...
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| Edible puppies for Easter...staying away from the Easter temptations in the local. Panaderias and Confiterias. The bakeries are full with Easter goodies |
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| Francisco Mania is still running strong, especially during Easter Week. A whole building front on Avenida de 9 Julio has been converted in a gigantic billboard with Pope Francisco's likeness. |
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| La Boca's residents are not impressed.. |
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| Almost everything is closed on Good Friday here in Buenos Aires, La Boca is open, as not only foreign visitors but also locals take advantage of late summer warmth and visit the many stores as well as a plethora of local restaurants and bars. |
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| For the visitors who never make it into Argentina's rural interior...a few plastic horses and a shop filled with artisan's wares from The Country. |
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| Artists offer their creations... |
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| Kids practice their goal shots in an empty parking lot |
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| Being almost adjacent to La Bonboniera, the stadium of the Boca Juniors soccer team, many La Boca shops offer soccer paraphernalia for every soccer club in Argentina. |
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| Picasso inspired La Boca balcony, on an old building with typical corrugated metal walls |
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| Hardly a seat empty in any of the restaurants of the entire district...and today is 'fish day', being Good Friday. The only day of the year, where even restaurants specializing in Argentinean BBQ, the Parilla, offer fish. |
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| Super sized Lionel Messi greeting shoppers at the door of a souvenir shop. |
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| Tango music, tango dancing still at every corner... |
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| Painting of the unmistakable bridge over the pungent and toxic Richaluela river which stagnates at the edge of La Boca, specifically El Caminito district... |
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One never knows, who one meets in La Boca...here Diego Maradona, the Soccer Deity of all Argentineans.
Photo with a (fake) Maradona - costs you just a few (real) pesos |
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| And - Happy Easter Again... |
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| Enjoying the Last Argentinean Pizza, which almost feels like a pre-Good Friday Last supper... |
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| Dancing for the last Friday Milonga at the Confiteria Ideal...tangoing three hours non stop.... |
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| Remembering the moves from my last 'Tecnica para mujer' class... |
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| And off to my very last Buenos Aires Milonga... |
