2014.08.18 - Chilling in Chile - Thinking about Argentina

tl;dr -- Go to Mendoza or Argentina, it's nice there! (But not in summer)

Not relevant information (aka introduction)

Yes, I agree. There are better word plays than 'Chilling in Chile', but I needed to get your attention somehow. 'Thinking about different things without writing something special' would have been even worse as a title. But that is what I want to do, I want to reflect about my last five weeks in Argentina. Why I came here. How I got here. Who I met here and what I did here. I am currently on my way back to Austria, and start writing this unusually personal blogpost in Chile, in the Santiago de Chile Airport. A flight from Mendoza to Chile lies behind me. I am awaiting seven hours of overlay, a long flight to Madrid, refuelling there, then to Frankfurt, and then with Austrian Airlines to Vienna. Home sweet home, as they say. 

This trip is a wonderful chance to write down some of the thoughts I have about Argentina. 

2014.08.04 - Buenos Aires

I apologise for this really fact based and unpersonal post, the next one makes up for it.

08-04: arrival by bus in Buenos Aires, picked up by family of a friend. Lunch with them.
08-05: walking in the city: from our hosts place (Palermo, Bustamante), parque de chile and other adjoining parks, av. 9 de julio, lunch at vegan place in Florida, placa de mayo and pink (~white) house, home via av. de mayo, calleo(?)
08-06: cemetery (Evita's grave) and MALBA Museum (Contemporary, but good installations.
08-07: Puerto Madero (river area, food at 'i', of course with dulce de leche). Seeing a guy from buenos aires who was in Norway with us, but who I actually never met in Norway.
08-08: lazy Day, shopping
08-09: Palermo Soho, cabildo museum, San Telmo
Home again to Mendoza by night bus