Today we started on our last leg of our journey, left the Jasy Hotel and the airport. Iguazu is a small airport, with only a few planes going in and out everyday. But somehow they managed to turn what should have been a stress less flight into chaos. It was so nice when we finally got on the plane, and 1 hour 50 we were landing at BA. Our taxi driver was waiting and did fine example of driving calmly through the traffic.
Unfortunately when we arrived at Defensa, the street of our hotel, there was a street market going on, so we had to haul our suitcases down the cobbled street. Luckily it wasn't too far.
We are staying in the Kenton Palace hotel, which isn’t a palace by the way. It is smallish new hotel in San Telmo. We have a great room, plenty of space, good air conditioning, as it is about 80 degrees today.
We dumped our luggage and went for a walk down through the market, which seems to go on for about a mile. We saw lots of interesting things but decided not to buy anything until we had been in BA for a while and got to know it better.
San Telmo is the oldist barrio in the city and is like staying in Camden or Islington. Lots of bars, small shops and just a bit tatty around the edges. But it is a great place to stay, I didn’t realise when I booked it, just how central it is to everything.
It became our local
Patagonia, a very good beer
We walked out at night to an area at the back of us and were surprised at how lively it was for a Sunday night. We had a cafe meal and wandered around for a bit. Quite surprised just how expensive the restaurants are.
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