Buenos Aires is an amazing city. Every block is a microcosm in and of itself, there are none without a few businesses and a great boutique or two. There are so many stores in this city we are convinced the main passtime must be shopping! (of course, we love this). Strolling through Soho (Palermo) yesterday, we once again ventured into what Chaos deemed 'another bar masquerading as a clothing store' - during the day many loungey bars will rent out space to a few vendors who sell clothing and jewellery. Great finds!
Since we arrived Thursday we have been exploring Palermo and Recoleta - by day, and by night, and by early the next morning! We have been to two of the important club nights - Club 69 at Niceto, and Rumi last night. This is a house electronica city, and the djs do not disappoint. Danger was ready to propose to each of them by the end of the night, and this morning we had a major philosophical discussion as to whether or not the dj at Rumi was better than Lance at the Mercury back in the day - high praise indeed.
Last night we met up with friends of A who live here and it was a great night. We first started with a wine tasting which took place in about 20 different places in the gorgeous Recoleta area - all of these places being high end design stores or clothing boutiques. It was amazing to see all kinds of people just walking around the street with wineglasses in hand, and a cellist playing outside on a corner, lit by the glow of the streetlights, cars, and ambiant light from the boutique window. We incidentally met several other travelers, and added on a chica to our crew, E from Seattle, on her first day in BsAs alone and was a natural fit to the group, which was 12 strong by then. Therefter, we went for dinner at Juana M, which is beyond recommended. We got several cuts of beef and really got to see the difference (such great quality, too) - but the showstopper was the venue. Large space, concrete floors, huge white bahaus (i think) style white tables and chairs, all kinds of huge colourful canvasses of artwork everywhere, packed tables of groups... kind of like an upscale art studio loft. Fabulous! At about 1:45 we raced home to change, and made it to Rumi for about 3 and the night lasted much longer from then. We ran into some american guys we had met a bar from the night before, and generally just had a blast on the dancefloor....
The lifestyle here is fantastic...it is chilled but in a naturally elegant kind of way. Today, we will visit La Boca and Belgrano just to walk around and explore (yesterday we visited the cemetary in Recoleta which has all kinds of beautiful mausoleums and is where Evita was um burried, I guess, and the Design Centre which has a ton of amazing artistic design boutiques... and great daquiris...)...tonight is a big night out in Puerto Madero. It's a beautiful day (last night was actually RAINY rainy rainy) ... oyo and ole!
This city is truly life as fabulous...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment