first the show
Sigi is ‘off’ today, and we all decided to take a scenic city tour on a “Touristik Bus” that drives around the most interesting sightseeing points all day long. It is a so-called hop on, hop off bus where you can either go around the same tour all day long or just once to get an impression and then explore points of interest. We did just that – had a go-around once and then got off the bus at the “Mercado Central” to sniff some local air. First we went for lunch in the market, eating the famous congria eel soup plus a giant southern Pacific crab (see picture). What a feast. We needed to walk off the calories and then checked out the rest of the market, went around the area outside and the market across the street with many vendors of veggies, fruit, clothes and gadgets. Frank and Sigi got their shoes shined in one of the pedestrian zones, and the shoe shine guy asked Sigi if he was Frank’s “papa”, since he paid the bill…Needless to say the Foos still crack up about this question. Sigi – NOT!!!
We caught the almost last bus at 5 back to the hotel and took a cooling swim in the hotel pool before a short siesta. Went to dinner at the “Argentinian Beef House” at 8, had a pisco sour and very nice Chilean wine along with our excellent steaks.
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