July is official winter in Argentina and Buenos Aires - as told by our friends here - used to be chilly if not cold. Today, not knowing that it's actually winter, you would think early fall or late spring. The sun came out right as we were having our first outdoor lunch at Croque Madame at El Palacio Errázuriz Alvear on Avenida Libertador (a 20-minute walk from our pad). The temperatured reached the high 60s with a 69% humidity.
The Palace is one of the most beautiful private residences in Buenos Aires and one of the few opened to the public to show how the power elite lived in the beginning of the 20th century. It was designed for the Chilean diplomat Matías Errázuriz and his wife the socialite Josefina de Alvear in 1911 by a French architect René Sergent who actually never visited Buenos Aires. It was left to the Argentinian state in 1937 and became a historic monument in 1997.
The palace is halfway to Malba (El Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires) and well suited as an excellent pitstop. Malba was unfortunatley closed today so we'll just have to do it all over again tomorrow. ¡Maldición!
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