Now we’re spending a few more days sightseeing in Buenos Aires.\u00c2\u00a0 On Sunday, first we went to the La Boca neighborhood to see an art museum.\u00c2\u00a0 It turned out that it is a small museum that was between exhibitions (Marcel Duchamp had just closed).\u00c2\u00a0 So there was nothing to see.\u00c2\u00a0 The guidebook points out areas in the La Boca area which are not regarded as safe for tourists to visit.\u00c2\u00a0 But it does have one extremely touristed area, kept well fed by a nonstop line of tour buses, where corrugated metal houses are brightly painted, souvenirs are sold, and everything is tango.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a few blocks from the stadium where the Boca Juniors play soccer.\u00c2\u00a0 We went to another interesting museum of an artist who made paintings of boats and piers, and was credited with creating the extremely touristed street.<\/p>\n
From there we went to the San Telmo area where there is a Sunday antique market.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s also a modern art museum, which the book thought might have reopened after major renovations, but it hadn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 The Sunday event is basically a swap meet located in the middle of an antique shopping district, with many shops selling more junk than I can imagine anyone ever buying.\u00c2\u00a0 On Sundays a plaza is taken over by people setting up little booths selling their old stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 We found some drawer pulls we may put in the kitchen.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s also another interesting museum where the construction work for someone’s house encountered\u00c2\u00a0 remnants of the eighteenth-century uses of that property.\u00c2\u00a0 They decided to make it a museum and event space where all of the bricks and cisterns and canals and arches and windows from the 1700s and 1800s are exhibited in their original locations, with modern floors and structural support.\u00c2\u00a0 The tour was very interesting.<\/p>\n
Monday we went out to rent bikes and ride around the ecological reserve next to the intensely-redeveloped port area.\u00c2\u00a0 We found that it was closed on Mondays.\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh.\u00c2\u00a0 On the way back to the hotel we stopped at another promising restaurant, Resto, to make dinner reservations.\u00c2\u00a0 They told us they didn’t serve dinner on Mondays, but we stayed for lunch, and it was delightful.\u00c2\u00a0 Then we walked around the Recoleta cemetery, which is packed with mausoleums where several presidents and authors and politicians are buried, including Evita.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we found a modern art museum which was open (on a Monday!), the Museo de Arte Latinoamerica de Buenos Aires (MALBA).\u00c2\u00a0 It had a good collection of twentieth-century art, reflecting the evolution of art in Europe over the century, but all made by Latin American artists.<\/p>\n
Colonia is a town in Uruguay just across the bay from Buenos Aires, one hour by catamaran.\u00c2\u00a0 It has a World Heritage listed Historic Downtown area, with several museums.\u00c2\u00a0 We went there on Tuesday, being careful to avoid Monday, because that’s when museums are closed.\u00c2\u00a0 As it turned out, these particular museums are all open on Monday, but two of them are closed on Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well — we’ve already seen whale skeletons in Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 We went to the four museums which were open — all of them were quite tiny.\u00c2\u00a0 Portuguese furnishings of the 1800s, native artifacts, and tile.\u00c2\u00a0 We also climbed the lighthouse, and spent a couple hours in a park writing postcards (Ray, mostly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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