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A bit quieter these last couple of days, mainly due to Becka getting a bad tummy, not sure if it was the keppe crudo (raw meat with onion) we ate at Sarkis, the legendary local Armenian restaurant, though I had it too and have suffered no ill effects... In the meantime, I kept myself busy trying to decide which Argentinian team to support, I´m going for either Velez Sarsfield or Chacarita. Any suggestions?? I´m also considering getting some blonde highlights, I´ve seen this on several of the guys round here and it looks really cool. Or a semi mullet maybe. (this is Mauro by the way)

The good news is that Becka´s better now - we managed to head out for our "anniversary" dinner last night at Gran Bar Danzon, which was all very swanky (they certainly do swank here with the best of em), but a few too many business types in suits flashing the cash to make me feel entirely comfortable. Becka had to keep reassuring me that there were others in jeans there too. Anyway, it made me realise that really, I´m more of a Guerrin (Maradona´s favourite pizza bar) kinda guy at heart...

Had a try of Fernet, the national Argentine spirit - it got better after the first few sips, very herby, but basically it´s not a patch on pisco!

Saw the Plaza de Mayo mothers, some of which must be over 80, making their slow and sombre trek around the Plaza, which they´ve been doing every Thursday afternoon for over 30 years, holding up pictures of their lost family members, a very moving and sobering reminder of the grim, and not too distant, history of this country... This kind of trip would have been pretty much impossible a couple of decades ago.

Also visited the MALBA (Latin American art) museum, which featured an Andy Warhol exhibition, slightly incongruously, and this:

(this was a surreptitious snap Becka managed to take before being publicly humiliated by a member of staff there for daring to take a picture - expressly forbidden, apparently!)

So we are squeezing some culture in between mealtimes!! xx