very little about her before this day and was amazed at her achievements for Women’s rights and charity. There was obviously a darker side though, which wasn’t adequately explained, and is on my list of things to research on the internet when I have some time to kill! A stroll thorough the botanical gardens brought our Palermo experience to and end and we hopped on the subway to whizz underneath the city back to the centre. We’d seen an Indian restaurant the day before and both of us were really fancying a curry but when we arrived we found that the price was quite a shock, and somewhat incompatible with our budgets!! We settled for an all you can eat Chinese. Now it wasn’t what you would describe as authentic Chinese food by any stretch of the imagination, but for value it just couldn’t be beaten. For the equivalent of £2 there was a huge salad bar, a hot buffet with around a dozen quasi-Chinese dishes, and even desert!! Even though our hostel had a kitchen, with these kind of prices we

didn’t use it once!! On the way back there was a on-street tango performance - in much the same way that other cities have buskers, Buenos Aires has tango dancers. We watched in amazement and wondered just what a proper show would be like if the street performers were this good!!

The next morning with that in mind when our hostel lady asked us if we would like to go to a tango show that evening we decided that we would. It was fairly expensive by Argentine standards, but we figured it had been a long time since we’d done anything cultural, and decided to give it a go! The only snag was, it looked like quite a posh affair, and we didn’t have anything to wear!! Fear not though, help was at hand!! Although it’s not been seen on old Blighty’s shores for a while, good old C & A are alive and kicking in BA!! After a quick look round we were kitted out, me with a new shirt and Hel with a posh