After spending a surprisingly fun, fun week in Paraguay, we flew back to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and one step closer to home. We'd first explored the city known for tango, Evita Peron and so much more on our initial trip to South America back in 2017 and were really happy to make it our first and last stop on this six-week jaunt to Antarctica, Patagonia and Paraguay. I admit the primary reason we wanted to fly in and out of Buenos Aires was to see if our memories of a mouth-watering dinner we'd had at Parrilla Pena were really as good as we thought!
Just behind Steven's bald pate, a waiter used what we could only call a 'wine grabber' to get a bottle of wine down from the shelf above our table. He must have had lots of experience because the bottle never wavered as it moved inches above our heads!
If you love a big slab of fork-tender meat, simple mashed potatoes, washed down with a delicious Malbec, all at rock-bottom prices by North American standards, look no further than this restaurant if you're in the Southern Hemisphere!
The tables were very close to each other which we didn't mind as we were able to chat with a French couple celebrating a birthday. This was their first time dining there so they didn't know that the servings were so humongous, they needn't have ordered an entree and vegetables for each of them!
Since our flight out wasn't until late that night, a good chunk of our last day was a delightfully lazy one spent hanging out in the Plaza Lavalle. The pretty square was just a two-minute walk from our hotel and we'd walked through it oodles and oodles of times in our previous visits to Buenos Aires in 2017 and before we flew south to Antarctica. Since it was a gloriously sunny day, we took advantage of relaxing in the sun for as long as we could, knowing we would be back in snowy Denver in a matter of hours!
After hours reading and people watching, we finally went for a walk to enjoy the city one last time.
We had one last supper, or very late lunch, really back at 'our' restaurant where even one of the waiters recognized us from our frequent visits!
I was drawn in by the classical lines in much of the city's architecture.
A final view of Teatro Colon, the opera house located just across from Plaza Lavalle, that we'd had the pleasure of touring on another visit.
The guitarists playing tango music entertained not only the cafe's customers but passersby like us, too!
As Buenos Aires was a tremendously exciting and vibrant city, and it had our favorite restaurant anywhere in the world, it was sad to bid 'Adios' to it and the fabulous time we'd had exploring more of the continent.
Next post: I never had a chance to finish writing the posts on our six-week trip to Ireland and the UK that we took shortly before leaving for South America. I left off with our trip to Belfast way back on September 21st, so the next post will be to the Boyne Valley.
Posted on February 27th, 2020, from a sunny but windy day in Denver, a few days before leaving for our extended trip to Asia and the Middle East. I hope you will bear with me as I try and finish blogging about our all too brief time in Wales, visiting some of the Scottish Isles and a few days in London interspersed with our adventures in Asia!
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