Hello again. Another sunny day here. Had a sleep in after a very noisy night with a concert blaring outside our hotel room until 2.45am. Government sponsored too - could only happen in South America? Went for a walk down to the new dock area which has been turned into a ritzy area like Melbourne's South Bank. then to the very silty River Plate, looking across to where we imagined Uruguay might be.
Found a Starbucks - yay! Decent coffee at last. Then in the afternoon we did a 3 hour bike tour of the city - went around the city down to La Boca area, famous for multi-coloured houses and the soccer team. Early evening we met all the travel party, and learned about arrangements, then off to a restaurant with half of them to eat huge Argentinian steaks which no-one could finish. Talked to a large party of blokes there who at first pretended to be a UK rugby team then told us they were actually part of the 200-person U2 band support team, who tell people they are rugby players to prevent being hit for free tickets.
The very brown River Plate
La Boca
La Boca soccer home
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