Liz : 2.55 p.m. on Sunday saw John and I puffing our way across the Plaza Libertad in central Buenos Aires (not a pretty sight). We'd misjudged the Sunday buses and arrived at the grand old opera house, the Teatro Colon (Columbus), with minutes to spare for our guided tour.
The outing had been organised by the B.A. Flickr (photo) group- the 'safari' set. The other set, the 'fiesteros', to which we also belong, meet weekly in pubs to be silly and drink beer, or usually the other way round. In fact there's a big cross-over between the two groups and amongst them some great photographers...very inspirational to novices like me.
The tour lasted roughly an hour and a half, with lots of photo ops and a good deal of Spanish dates for me to decipher (no doubt with a confused expression on my face). After that we walked across town to the Recoleta Cultural Centre and strolled through the free photo exhibition going on there at the moment, the Festival de la Luz.
Retiring to a cafe a while later I tried a Submarino, the Argentine winter warmer: a glass of hot milk with a chocolate bar submerged in it...yum :)  ¶ 3:06 PM