We spent some of the afternoon today in the Rosedal, the rose garden in Palermo, along with a few hundred other porteños enjoying a gorgeous blue sky and warm sunshine... the downside was that we were also reading the papers about the England game.

sigh....

The Rosedal is one of the well used parks, partly because they don't allow dogs in there... anywhere else in BA and you better check really carefully before you sit down. Mind you, in the Rosedal itself there are lots of benches and signs saying keep off the grass. We wandered out there with the mate kit (the flask and suchlike) and spent a pleasant hour or two attempting to decipher some of the stories in La Nacion. My favourite was from a reporter at Wimbledon (an Argentine) bemoaning the lack of coverage of the football at the All England club.

And our Spanish is improving slowly, I could understand the cold caller we just had asking about our electricity supplier.
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