We arrived in Buenos Aires at 3pm--seven hours late. The airlines are not the only ones who have trouble getting you to your destination on time. Our delay was due to two things. For some reason we missed our time to line up to come into the port and that put us back in the line. The channel into the harbor is only about 75 yards wide and only 5 ships can come in at a time, so we had to wait for a new assigned spot. then someone got very ill and we had to divert to Montevideo so they could get him off the ship. But it didn't really matter to us.
Buenos Aires sits at the mouth of the River De Plata, the widest river mouth in the world. You can't see from shore to shore until you get into the city. The river is full of silt making it very brown. In fact, if you didn't have any other points of reference you would think that you were looking out at a large desert.
Once we disembarked, we went on a tour of two neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, La Bocca and San Telmo. Half of the people in BA are of Italian descent, news to us, and the first neighborhood was very Italian. The second was an antique center. BA is very European looking, but a bit run down. There are also many modern high rises. Tomorrow we are taking a longer tour to see more of the city and some tango.
After we returned to the ship we had dinner and went to an Argentian folk music and dance performance which was very entertaining.
We are enjoying ourselves and meeting people (mostly old ones) from diffferent parts of the world.
I am sorry we are not sending any pictures. The internet is very slow and it would take a LONG time to download them.
Diane
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