Friends From California and Canada Visiting Buenos Aires
It's been a fun and eventful week hosting friends visiting from California and Canada in Buenos Aires!
My childhood friend Michelle and her boyfriend Chris stayed with Brian and I for a week. Michelle and Chris have hosted Brian and I a number of times at their home in Lake Tahoe, so Brian and I were more than happy to host them in Buenos Aires and their first visit to South America.
I kept this physically active couple busy with multiple activities:
Bike tour of Buenos Aires
Tango lessons for beginner's at a milonga, a tango club
The Argentine Experience Dinner (photo above) where we learned how to make empanadas and how to eat Argentine food
Wine tasting with Anuva Winery
MALBA and Museo de Evita
San Telmo Sunday Market and tango at Dorrego Plaza
Recoletta Cemetary
Dinners and meals at Brian and my favorite Buenos Aires restaurants!
Brian learning about how to make Empanadas
How to order steaks in Argentina
Delicious appetizers at the Argentine Experience dinner
My very first handmade empanada!
Brian's very first handmade empanada
Chris showing how to eat appetizers in Argentina
Our 5 hour bike tour around Buenos Aires. Here we are in La Boca by the famous La Boca Stadium
Bike tour about Buenos Aires in San Telmo
Chris sipping Mate (Argentine tea)
Tango dancer taking a break in La Boca's El Caminito
The colorful neighborhood, La Boca
Tango lessons at La Catredal de Milonga
A Milonga (tango club) in Plaza Dorrego at the San Telmo Market
Museo de Evita, the memorial of Argentina's former First Lady
Michelle and Chris at Calden del SoHo
At Calden del SoHo, my favorite parrilla (steakhouse) in Buenos Aires
Chris and Michelle at La Cabrera's Happy Hour, a parrilla institution in Buenos Aires
Brian and I at La Cabrera
Entrana (skirt steak) at La Cabrera
Changing of the guards at San Martin's Tomb at the Metropolitan Cathedral where Pope Francis used to be Bishop. San Martin is an Argentine hero who led the revolt against the Spaniards in Argentina, Chile,a and Peru
Wine tasting at Anuva Wines
Sommelier Diego educating us about Argentine wines
Japanese Gardens in Palermo
After Michelle and Chris left Argentina, I had a chance to meet up with my friends Dennis and Christina from Toronto Canada, who I had met earlier this year in India!
Dennis and Christina are a very sweet couple who love to travel the world and were about to board a cruise ship touring the cape of South America. Next year they are taking a full year off to travel throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Africa, and Europe.
I took Dennis and Christina to Cafe Tortoni, the oldest cafe in Buenos Aires on Avenida de Mayo close to the presidential palace.
It was so good to host friends in Buenos Aires and show them around this week!