Pisco Sours and Seafood at Volver Restaurant, Ushuaia, Argentina

Seafood is fresh and plentiful in Patagonia. Stelios and I chose Volver, a seafood restaurant close to the port for our dinner. We spied the Pisco Sours at the table next to us and promptly ordered two of the same. Cheers!

The ceviche, a dish that consists of lime marinated seafood, came with a skewered

chili over the top. Impressive and hot!

The ceviche was outstanding!

I had the seared sea bass...

and Stelios the seafood casserole.

Oh, and after dinner cigars with Che!!!

Viva Patagonia!

Enjoy!

Maria

Wildflowers of Patagonia

Patagonia is the land at the Southern tip of Latin America shared by Argentina and Chile. Patagonia touches both the coast of the Atlantic Ocean as well as the Pacific.

It is sparsely populated and retains a lot of its wild and undeveloped nature, comprised of the Southern section of the Andes, deserts, steppes and grasslands.

The flowers are mostly small and delicate.

 Lupins

 Eatable berries

This sub-Antarctic ecosystem is rugged and yet fragile. The delicate shrubs and flowers are protected within the forests of ArgentineanTierra del Fuego and the islands and fjords of Chilean Patagonia.

I feel privileged to have been able to walk these paths and experience the beauty of this pristine place.

Enjoy!

Maria

Recoleta Cemetery - Buenos Aires

La Recoleta Cemetery is a  cemetery located in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains graves of notable people, including Evita Peron, Presidents if Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and a granddaughter of Napoleon.

One of the most popular graves is that of Evita Peron Duarte, and people are always there visiting and bringing flowers.

 Some of the mausoleums are elaborately sculpted statues and scenes.

Some of the graves have been left to the elements probably because they are so old that there are no more descendants left to care for them.

This necropolis consists of neat walkways flanked by grave after grave of the rich and notable of Argentine society through history.

Some monuments are built like pyramids, fitting since the worship of the dead is most notable by the Egyptians.

Some of the crypts are so old that the doors are left ajar and a visitor can spy the coffins within. I have seen small coffins, large elaborate coffins, urns. In some, the family remains are placed in crypts under the ground and as that compartment is filled they begin to place them on the main level.
  
It is one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world with many statues and lavishly built mausoleums. 

After a visit to the cemetery, a visitor should stop at the celebrated if overpriced La Biela cafe across the park for a coffee and a pastry. I recommend the apple pie!

Enjoy!

Maria
 

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Parrillada at La Cholita

 Meat in Argentina is plentiful, delicious, and a good value. The animals are grass fed, raised in pastures.  On our recent trip to Buenos Aires we chose to have dinner at La Cholita, a meat haven in the Ricoleta neighborhood of town, where the locals eat.

 At the back of the restaurant, a grill is permanently on. On it are beef innards like kidneys, entrails, there are blood sausages, regular meat sausages, big hunks of tenderloin, hunks of chorizo de bef, rounds of Regiannito cheese.

 The Argentinian wine is delicious and plentiful and again a good value.

 Don't fill up on the bread!

 A platter of gooey grilled cheese.

 The chorizo de bef cut with vegetables and a fried egg on top!

 Delicious cuts of meat.

When you are in Argentina, don't forget to try the Chandon champagne that is produced in the country.

Grills like this one are fired up all over the city and they are called parrilladas, barbecues. Our family had a great meal, lots of wine and local beer at a fun, local hangout. One can't ask for more!

And don't forget to tango!

Enjoy!