Pellegrini!! Buenos Aires also has the added attraction for us of being home to some of the only vegetarian restaurants in Meat loving Argentina, and we were keen to give at least one of them a go!! The first one we picked turned out to be an all you can eat buffet affair, and rather tasty it was too! Piles of delicious hot veggie food accompanied by mountains of fresh salad went down very well indeed!!

We spent the afternoon generally wandering around until the long day before started to catch up with us and we went back to the hostel for a few hours chill! Browsing through the entertainment section of the Lonely Planet I found that round the corner from the hostel was the “Gibraltar”, which promised “Sofas, curried foods and happy hour” - sounded right up our street!! On arrival we were greeted by a sign which proclaimed “this is a pub!” Excellent we thought, a pub! So we ordered a beer

and grabbed a seat!! A couple of beers went down pretty well so we stayed put and ordered a pizza for our tea!!

Due to our time being curtailed by the need to get to Peninsula Valdes before the whales left there was no time for relaxed days, so the next morning we were up early again with a plan to explore Recoleta and Palermo. After consulting with our friendly hostel owners it was decided that the local bus was the best way to go! It was a bit of a roller coaster ride across the city, but not quite on the scale of Rio‘s maniac bus drivers! After missing our stop we finally arrived at the “Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Pilar”, a very old and ornate church which housed an interesting museum. There were some enticing glimpses of the famous “Cementerio de la Recoleta”, or Recoleta Cemetery for the Spanish language challenged!! Speaking of which in a bookshop nearby we bought ourselves a