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46 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Jan. 12, 1963 Saturday
Place Buenos Aires
Weather Sunny & cool; warmer, cool again.
We started on a tour lasting from 930 to 12, & altho we were tired, it was lovely. The city is not so strikingly beautiful as Rio, but it is clean & pleasant, with a few lovely old buildings dating from its settlement in 1540, & some splendid parks, one with rose gardens & a lovely Spanish "summer house" made with tiles & fine wrought iron. The wharf is lively with lots of passenger & freight boats from Kopenhagen, Hamburg, Rotherdam & other places. Many statues in "Victorian" style were a welcome change from the modernistic Brasilia type. The lady guide who conducted the tour in 2 languages was nice, & well informed. Here is a zoo & a botanic garden, which we hope to visit. The air is clear & not sticky, & we feel much better than at Iguassu, which is extremely humid from the Falls. After the tour, Doris & I ate lunch at the "Venado", an expensive Italian restaurant at 738 Tucuman, where we ate chicken, mushrooms & tiny potatoes for 565 pesos ($4.52), our most expensive meal so far. The peso is worth 6.1 cruzeiros, & we feel the difference!
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 47
Date Jan. 13, 1963 Sunday
Place Buenos Aires, Tigre & delta of the Paraná River.
Weather Sunny & pleasant
We took a 2nd tour of Tigre and the Paraná River delta with the same guide, Dona Alicia. After an hour by bus thru the San Vicente section & along the water front, we changed over to a covered launch & chugged slowly over a narrow channel between rowing clubs & private summer homes to an Italian restaurant on another "island", where we had spagetti, beef, french fries, canned peaches & tea. The grounds were crowded & not very attractive, altho a large party of Italians kept it lively with barbershop of singing & horseplay. The only real beauty there was an arbor of green grapes. We met a nice Amer. couple, the Charles Walters from Ohio. He is teaching for a year in the Amer. School at S Paulo. He was taking pictures, & suggested that he send some to the Geogr. Soc. with a story about fazenda life in Brazil. The small canals we sailed thru were coffee-colored with mud, but people were swimming in them enjoying it all, & the weather was perfect.
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