Dont cry for me Argentina

Posted by Matt M

Posted on July 14, 2008

Hi everyone, Matt here from Sunny Argentina the first stop on our South American adventure :-) So first stop Buenos Aires and what an amazing and huge city as were to find out yesterday when we went to explore with our city map and ended up walking for five hours, these things deserve a beer or three.

Well first major place we visited was the La Boca neighbourhood which is an old port town built by Migrants mainly Italian but also some Scots as we were to find out later on at a visit to Boca Juniors who have a player by the name of "Carlos McAllister". The main attractions of La Boca are the colourful Cominito area where all the houses are painted in bright colours, people dancing tango on the streets without a care in the world, Artists selling paintings of their work and an abundance of eateries and coffee shops. Only a few streets away is the imposing home of La Boca Juniors Football club, the Bombenea. The Bombenera is possibly the craziest stadium i have ever seen, a mish mash of terraces and the pitch is within touching distance making the atmosphere on match day immense and you can understand why the fans are known as "the twelve’s" as in twelfth man. We didn’t actually get to sample a game due to there not being one for a month but we will put that right in Brazil.

We also managed to get around all the other bright and colourful neighbourhoods but i have to say Boca was my favourite. All in all an excellent four days in which we managed to see most if not all of the City, visited the famous Bombenera, Sampled a famous Argentinean steak, hit a few bars and clubs, managed to get by with having only received one fake note, a common occurrence so we hear and our Spanish is slowly improving from awful to not quite awful, Enjoy the pics next stop is Rio....................

La boca Neighbourhood

La Boca club shop

La Boca Stadium

Martin Palermo signing autographs

Trophy Dispay

Night out at Cro bar club