Inspired by our encounter with The Man on The Bus we changed our plan for a motorised tour of Buenos Aries and decided instead to walk to the old town in San Telmo, an area we had been advised would be a suitable test for our emerging photographic talents.
En route, we stopped for refreshment in a bustling coffee shop just off the main pedestrianised shopping area, visited some ancient churches with amazing painted ceilings and stained glass windows, browsed second hand bookshops and had lunch with some locals in the Cafe Relax on the edge of the old town. In the afternoon we continued to wander the quaint cobblestone streets and marvelled at the variety of archetecture and streetscape. We watched a local hatmaker at work and at the La Poesia Bar we stopped and relaxed over some splendid artisan beers from their very own micro brewery and agreed among ourselves that we were having a very fine time indeed. We then stumbled upon a quaint indoor market where we browsed happily for an hour among a myriad stalls selling everything from fresh fruit to esoteric antiquarian paraphanalia. a browsers delight. But don’t ask us where any of it was as there is little chance we could find it again given a week to further explore these amazing backstreets.
At the end of a long day, we felt we had seen some of the real Buenos Aries and, drained by our exertions, we paid homage to The Man on The Bus.