We're just back from our latest excursion with Tatiana. We sat at a cafe in sight of El Congreso (the Congress Hall and its plaza where regular protests occur) and learned by reading and discussing the contents two newspapers --
La Nacion and
Clarín. Perhaps the word "reading" needs to be clarified. We could read the words in Spanish; we could not understand most of the words, however. But we made progress and learned from Tatiana about the different political stances of the various newspapers (yes, plural -- it seems that there are many newspapers in this city and they are read and discussed by the city's citizens. This sounds vaguely familiar, like a country I used to know about....
We found that much of downtown is closed on Sábado (and likely Domingo), so we settled for some fairly awful empanadas (we usually like them). Just to spite yesterday's blog where I wrote about the speed and efficiency of the Subte, today we found ourselves stranded for twenty minutes because of a breakdown ahead. Perfect time for Max to have a siesta and the kids to play on Eve's ipod. We made it home, with some churros con dulce de leche (the latter being our new favorite sweet flavor) and are now busy with, well, blogging and cardplaying ("BS" or, as we would like the kids to say, "I doubt it").
More in a few minutes....
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