El Tigre flows from the Rio de la Plata and first began as a hunting ground for fish and jaguars, not tigers despite the deceiving Spanish name. This town is located in the greater northern area of Buenos Aires and basically lines El Tigre river.
There are 5 reasons to come here: (1) casino, because technically it is not in the city where gambling is prohibited, (2) weekend theme park with small roller coasters, (3) Puerto de Frutas with great artisan crafts too, (4) take the catamaran 1.5 hour relaxing ride to check out the vacation homes, (5) to go camping/fishing/rowing.
Today’s agenda at work included taking a group of 30 high school students through various means of transportation to see the beauty of non-bustling Buenos Aires, with the ultimate attraction being the day cruise. I was informed this morning that one student was attached by a red headed midget last night at a Tango Show at 2am in the morning and had his camera stolen. I’m glad he found humor in the whole situation, especially since he was 16 and not supposed to be out past midnight.
Ever seen the commercial for air vacuumed storage bags? That is the metaphor I’m going to use instead of “packed like sardines” for how the metro system is here during rush hour, 8-11am and 5-8pm. When the doors open at a metro stop, 5 people fall out….but magically those 5 tuck themselves and their briefcase back into the metro car and 5 more people suck their way in. It is a miracle I got thirty 15-17 yr olds across town to the train station that took us to El Tigre!
After walking through this historic town and seeing the Italian, French, Swiss and English Rowing Club headquarters (I would say Belguim-esque feel), we ate lunch right on the water at a place called Amarras! Something else that is amazingly delicious is a “hamburguesa completa”: the meat patty topped with ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato and, yes, a hard-boiled egg. This ham and egg combination is definitely an Argentine twist to make any meal.
On the boat ride we saw your typical summer vacation homes, even past presidents’ homes, including one that is encased in glass today and restored into a museum. Cool thing is that you don’t need to leave your house to go grocery shopping. Just leave a plastic bag tied to the dock post and the traveling supplies boat stops by!
On the train ride back to the city the tour guide, Martín, shared with us some “pan dulce y frita”, that is fried sweet bread. It was good, similar to soft nan bread with some sugar on it. Then he described to us the process of making it….mixing bleached white flour with animal fat and then frying it. Is there anything unhealthier than that? With all the meat this country eats they have to do something with the unused animal parts so as not to be wasteful. Can we donate it to China? I’m sure it is better than the Chinese meat scrapplings they fried and served to us at those 2-hour banquet -style lunches on my last MBA study abroad in March!
There are 5 reasons to come here: (1) casino, because technically it is not in the city where gambling is prohibited, (2) weekend theme park with small roller coasters, (3) Puerto de Frutas with great artisan crafts too, (4) take the catamaran 1.5 hour relaxing ride to check out the vacation homes, (5) to go camping/fishing/rowing.
Today’s agenda at work included taking a group of 30 high school students through various means of transportation to see the beauty of non-bustling Buenos Aires, with the ultimate attraction being the day cruise. I was informed this morning that one student was attached by a red headed midget last night at a Tango Show at 2am in the morning and had his camera stolen. I’m glad he found humor in the whole situation, especially since he was 16 and not supposed to be out past midnight.
Ever seen the commercial for air vacuumed storage bags? That is the metaphor I’m going to use instead of “packed like sardines” for how the metro system is here during rush hour, 8-11am and 5-8pm. When the doors open at a metro stop, 5 people fall out….but magically those 5 tuck themselves and their briefcase back into the metro car and 5 more people suck their way in. It is a miracle I got thirty 15-17 yr olds across town to the train station that took us to El Tigre!
After walking through this historic town and seeing the Italian, French, Swiss and English Rowing Club headquarters (I would say Belguim-esque feel), we ate lunch right on the water at a place called Amarras! Something else that is amazingly delicious is a “hamburguesa completa”: the meat patty topped with ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato and, yes, a hard-boiled egg. This ham and egg combination is definitely an Argentine twist to make any meal.
On the boat ride we saw your typical summer vacation homes, even past presidents’ homes, including one that is encased in glass today and restored into a museum. Cool thing is that you don’t need to leave your house to go grocery shopping. Just leave a plastic bag tied to the dock post and the traveling supplies boat stops by!
On the train ride back to the city the tour guide, Martín, shared with us some “pan dulce y frita”, that is fried sweet bread. It was good, similar to soft nan bread with some sugar on it. Then he described to us the process of making it….mixing bleached white flour with animal fat and then frying it. Is there anything unhealthier than that? With all the meat this country eats they have to do something with the unused animal parts so as not to be wasteful. Can we donate it to China? I’m sure it is better than the Chinese meat scrapplings they fried and served to us at those 2-hour banquet -style lunches on my last MBA study abroad in March!
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