A crisp and sunny winter morning saluted us as we left our pad for a brisk walk to San Telmo - the old Italian neighborhood. By now, the city map is tucked away and we solely navigate on memory, street names and compass direction.
We started out on Pechego de Melo, to Callao, Arenales and then the east and sunny side of Avenida de 9 de Julio, all the way down to the famous Obelix. There we took Avenida Corrientes to Balcarce and followed it down to the center of San Telmo for a great lunch at Abril. To tell you the truth, it's quite a walk. Took about 2 hrs.
Abril is a great low-key bistro with a very affordable lunch (AR$12-16). The food is well thoughout, original and well-tasting without being pretentious. I had curry meatballs with potatoes and the Missus a very tasty pasta with tomato sauce. Wine and coffee (Cortaditos) included.
Our walk back (oh yeah) went past Casa Rosada (The Pink House) which is the presidential palace on Placa de Mayo (Celebration of the independence day May 25, 1810), on Diagonal Norte up to the Obelix via Teatro Colon, Talcahuano, Arenales, Las Heras and Pechego. That took about 2 hrs, as well.
I'm not big on hiking but walking in a beautiful sunny city when time means nothing is a great adventure. We took about 60 pictures of all different kind of interesting things, people and buildings that we ran into on our walk.
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