Friday continued....

Spent the afternoon after the tour doing some walking and shopping around the city. It was Stella's anniversary (our tour guide) and we went for a two-course dinner at a local restaurant called 'Suipacha'. We walked there through the city streets and malls, past the evening markets, the tango dancers, the singers, beggars and the hawkers...

It was a traditional meal in a very old, traditional Argentinian style restaurant. An elderly gentleman was playing a 'button accordian' very beautifully, a skill which is slowly dying out.

David and I bought a bottle of champagne to celebrate with Stella... there was almost an 'international incident' when I went to pay for the bottle at the bar - they thought I'd asked for another one and were about to open it! I was trying to make myself understood that I wanted to pay for the first bottle only - I started to panic! Somehow I was able to collect my thoughts and make myself understood, which the bar staff all found very amusing! I was flustered! By the time the manager came to accept my payment, I was explaining my situation to him and he told Stella that I was speaking spanish very well for someone who'd been learning as long as I had.... maybe he was just being very kind!!!!