To infinity and beyond.

Hola chicos - H here,

Qué tal? It's a bit late, but this is our weekend before last weekend...

The weekend started on Friday night (after our Spanish lesson) with Mongolian BBQ for dinner. Fangin' for something a bit different we followed internet recommendations to Genghis House in Recoleta. As usual, we were "early" for dinner and at 8pm the restaurant was empty. The idea is you grab a bowl, fill with a mixture of meat/veggies/noodles/rice from the bar and give to the BBQ-master to add the sauces and throw it on the grill. I opted for extra extra extra garlic and chilli on my bowl of goodies (which was mostly full of pineapple). Delicious!! Actually I think I went as far as to say it was my favourite meal in Buenos Aires so far (I think it was because the crazy amount of garlic reminded me of my Dad's cooking).

Before..

The BBQ-Master doing his thang

After - Amazing!!

Saturday morning begun with us trying (in vain) to rent bicycles from the Free BA City Bicycle sharing scheme. They make it ridiculously difficult! Long story short, we gave up on getting bicycles for this weekend and decided to head to MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires). For an entry fee of $40 pesos each, we got to see the amazing Yayoi Kusama - Obsesión infinita exhibition! It was an amazing (and slightly insane) exhibition in a really beautiful art gallery!

Outside MALBA

Oscar trying to eat some security guards...as you do

The crazy long line to enter MALBA

The infinity room

MALBA 

MALBA

Piece titled "The angry Japanese vagina" - or something along those lines

Adding our stickers to the Yayoi Kusama exhibition

MALBA

Sunday morning (midday) we headed to the San Telmo antique markets. While the rest of the city is deserted on Sundays, San Telmo was buzzing! With cobblestone streets and some gorgeous old buildings, San Telmo was full of character. The markets were crazy, with a vary large variety of interesting and slightly wacky offerings. After spending a few hours strolling around we seemed to only cover half of the markets! They continued up Defensa as far as the eye could see.

San Telmo

The markets

Hoof mate?

There were heaps of stalls selling seltzer bottles

Mandatory San Telmo selfie

Anyone know what this is for? Points for creative answers.

Mad matchbox collection - it continued inside the store too!

After getting tired of the markets, we decided to try again to get bikes. This time from a paid bike rental place that we had researched online. But alas, they didn't accept our ID.  So we decided to head over to the Costarena Sur nature reserve on the other side of Puerto Madero for a stroll and a choripan. Third time lucky, there were some dodgy looking guys renting bikes at the entrance to the reserve. Dodgy guys never ask for ID, right? Winning! So after a 'quick' Bondiolita (we only waited about 30 minutes - must be a record for BsAs food establishments) from a roadside parilla, we headed off on our bikes around the nature reserve. About a 5 minute ride into the park and the crowd started to thin out and eventually disappeared. A beautiful day, fresh air coming off the river, no crowds and a nature reserve! What a (much appreciated) change of scenery and a great end to the weekend!

A typical 'condiment' table to dress your choripan (or Bondolita)

A glimpse of Puerto Madero through the haze

We reached the river! (Oscar nibbling on caramel covered almonds)

<3

Oscar eating too hard as usual, and broke his spoon

Puerto Madero (yep, that's me jumping at the top - typical)

Puerto Madero

Argentine version of Garfield?

All in all, I think we're really starting to settle in. I can't believe we've been here almost 2 months already!! Work is good and I'm especially enjoying the weekends being so touristy. There's just so much to see and do and we've been lucky with some amazing winter weather! Still cracking on with our Spanish lessons and slowly improving I think.

We've also been buying some bits and bobs on our journeys to brighten up our apartment a bit.

Sahh coote

We're starting to plan some sneaky trips outside of the city, so keep tuned!

Hasta luego,
H