A Graveyard and a Gallery

We started our cultural day by walking to the Cementario de la Recoleta and then armed with a map on which we'd marked the top ten, we wandered around the avenues of magnificent tombs until we reached the highlight for HJ: the tomb of Eva Duarte (better known as Peron and Evita). We had a beer stop at La Biela (with connections to the  racing driver Fangio) and as again, the weather was beautiful we sat out on the large terrace filling the time before our next stop.  This was the Museo Nacional de Bella Artes.  It didn’t quite deliver the array of European artists described in the book and although there was a piece in English about Reubens and Rembrandt, we didn’t see any of their paintings.  There was an ’interesting’ selection of native art and sculpture and in lots of cases it would have been interesting to talk to the artists to understand their thoughts!  As by now it was 2pm a late lunch was called for and so we headed down Avenue Presidente M Quintana and found a small side walk bar where we had a light lunch of a shared jamon and queso quiche for a reasonable 45 peso. Carre Four provided us with a bottle of Argentinian champagne for around £4 which provided us with a most acceptable pre-dinner apertif before heading off for Green Chicken Curry and Beef and Brocolli in Oyster Sauce at The Empire.