John:
Today we wandered out to the nature reserve. It's between the city and the river, on the other side of the new barrio called Puerto Madero (sort of a souped up Albert dock or Butler's Wharf in London).

The nature reserve is the porteños back garden and there were a few there today out for a stroll or a bike ride. I was just glad to be away from traffic and sucking in some fresh air. It was also nice to see the rio plata... which is brown, browner than the mersey used to be on a bad day... and there are big signs saying you shouldn't go in it...

By the entrance to the nature reserve there are loads of little parillas, imagine... barbeques... nothing in our last seven weeks could have prepared us for that now could it? (erm... well... okay...).

So liz had a Bondiola and I stuck with my choripan... and for the purposes of this trip (the little smoky 24hr grill woman needed a name) I was Juan. It seems that the BA back garden was also useful for a government sponsored keep fit campaign so we saw a few people doing boxercise, we, on the other hand were eating apple pie and drinking coffee...

On the walk home we went past a lot of cows... an art project, cow parade 2006. Have a look at the flickr piccies and then follow the cow parade group to see some more. The climbing cow was Liz's fave though, in part because of the sign on the other side that said DANGER: no climbing...
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