We arrived mid morning, Sunday. Buenos Aries seems like a mixture of an Amercian cosmopolitan city and European but clean. Not much of graffiti, (eg Roman tagging) trash as overflow from bins and people who speak Spanish but certainly try to communicate in English, sign language via gesturing and pointing. Many will actually tolerate my Italian.
After a brief nap at the Sofitel Hotel we walked to the famous Florida street to research buyiing leather. The weather is hot +/- 85*F but with the lovely shade trees and an occasional breeze, pretty tolerable.
Leather is the hot commodity here with so many cows. It either leather, meat or malbec)
Florida street is full of various qualities of leather and prices. Its also the place for ' black market cambio'. You can change your American dollars wth a black market exchange rate. As you stroll down Florida street men call out Cambio, Cambio. It seems always a deep abrupt voice, borderline spooky. The word almost echos. Yet by the banks and atms, the police are there watching. Approved blackmarket if there is such thing. I had researched this prior and had decided that was I too conversative and it seemed altogether too risky. You can only get Argentian pesos in Argentina. It has to do with the economic downfall in 2001. (an explanation beyond the scope of this blog) The concierge exchanged for us and gave us a nice lesson as too always look for the water mark with large bills. Counterfeiting is pretty common.
We perused in the San Telmo area at least a mile of local craft tables. Saw 2 trending nows items. Vinyl records and old tape cassettes.
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