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March 2006
3/29/06

A photo of me with my sweetie, Nana-chan. We are at...a restaurant. I think it is El Trapiche. Maybe not.

3/29/06

This is definitely at El Trapichea picture of the famous BLOOD SAUSAGE, Morcilla (sp?). Gross stuff. Kinda "earthy" tasting. Although apparently Argentinians like their blood sausage.

3/29/06

Another picture of the famous blood sausage but this time with a side of ribs (Asado).

3/29/06

A revue that we all went to on Sunday night. Colorful ladies.

3/26/06

Argentinian keys for our homestay house (exterior door and interior door plus those to the veranda). Very unusual. You find these keys in houses and in business (like my Spanish school Ele Baires). By the way, I added some functionality to the site, you can now click on the pictures to see a larger image.

3/25/06

Here we are, Nana and I with our good friend Milan Vidakovic at Cafe Torotino, a cafe frequented by the porteno intellegensia in the 30s, most notably Borges. There's actually 3 wax figures of Borges and two of his contemporaries in the corner of this place. We were all, frankly, disappointed by the service here. It's a big tourist spot, but the waiters could care less. Took forever to get some long donut-like desserts (called churritos).

3/25/06

ditto.

3/24/06

This is a pic of Luna Park a sporting arena and venue for big music. Very classy exterior (as with all things in BsAs). This is a view from our 4th (3rd in BsAs) story hotel room the first week we got here. U2 and Rolling Stones played here in the same week, Franz Ferdinand played the following week. The noise from Luna Park was nothing, somehow, but the buses (called collectivos) that run all night however have the worst brakes of any buses in any city, making sleeping with the windows open impossible.
Here we are in Argentina with an old friend of mine, Doug Flanzer and his wife Amy at a great steak restaurant called El Trapiche in Palermo Viejo. I hadn't seen Doug for over 15 years and worried that I wouldn't be able to recognize him. He looked just like I remembered him though -- guess living in San Francisco has treated him well.
And here is the steak I ordered at El Trapiche, called Bife de Chorizo, a popular dish here (basically a rump/sirloin cut, I think). It was big. In Argentina, you generally wait until 10pm to eat dinner. Thus the need for superlarge pieces of beef.
Here is my Nana-chan at our first homestay home, casa de Tiepelmann. Looking out onto the paio area from kitchen. The occassion was the birthday of Ebe, our homestay mother.
Here is picture of our homestay family from 36 Pringles, Enrique and Ebe Tiepelmann. Really nice, talkative, generous folks. Ebe is celebrating her 71st birthday.
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