Our last day in BA for awhile as tomorrow we head south. We went downtown and spent quite a bit of time in the amazing bookstore El Ateneo Grand Splendid in the Recoleta neighbourhood. Amazing because it's housed in an old theatre, built around 1919, with a cafe on the former stage. It has a beautifully painted dome ceiling, and balconies on the sides; it seemed like there were as many people there to look at books as there were to take photos, with flashes going off all over. Speaking of flashes, there is thunder and lightning right above at the moment; the thunder is actually shaking the house, and the rain is pouring down. It's still quite warm out though. Halloween isn't really celebrated here, though a few kids in this neighbourhood trick or treat.After the bookstore we had lunch at Cafe Tortoni, another institution - both a cafe and tango place (at night). It's over 100 years old, and you line up to get in it's so popular. Took the train back; so far on the train rides we've had there have been fellows selling socks, tape measures, flashlights, cookies, chewy mints and hair clips. They can walk from car to car from one end of the train to the other.
Photo by Yeraze (Flickr Creative Commons)
