The start of the day was a journey by subte (Buenos Aires underground) from San Telmo to the embassy area of Buenos Aires we were looking for an art gallery. As we came out and close to the area of the galleries it struck me as their seemed to be a lot of police in this area...we all discussed the presence of the police and an assumption was made over road blocks radio and television crews were recording a happening.
¡strange!
We needed to know if we were going in the right direction so we asked a policeman-hhhmm-he was not amused-he was heavily armed...he gave us direction...
Reflecting back to our previous thoughts; we assumed that the political change may be the reason for heavily armed police to be present. On the 24th June 2007 the newly elected mayor was voted in by more than a million people in Buones Aires Mauricio Macri.. a move forward for democracy.
So walking and talking I commented that it was strange how the two political changes in the UK and Buones Aires coincided. Penny spoke of the floods at home in Sheffield where one person had died...And then I raised a point about the historical event of the sinking of the Belgrano ( a warship) a discussion commenced on whether the correct intervention was taken by the UK navy...the Belgrano was way out of the war zone... so as the Belgrano we agreed was way out of a war would the inaction have been incorrect.
The political dilemmas and warmongering were a focus for day was Blair a poodle to Bush?? and would Brown take forward a more democratic stance ( and we are on holiday!!).
We reached our destination...The art gallery Malba- Fundacion Constantini ( a little early!!). So we considered mistakes and the blame culture a discussion entered into from day one in a democratic arena no one shoulder shoulder the responsibility of mistakes...we went for a submarino (hot chocolate)...
At the restaurant at the art gallery we were informed by a waiter that a man was going mad with a rifle in the park... hence the assumptions in the first part of the blog were unfounded...
The art gallery was absolutely brilliant and my haiku for the day exploded into a combination of thoughts of the day and events written on the hoof.
Afterwards the we walked to the Japanese gardens which were built in 1967 it hosts 150 species of plants including many bonsai trees many of the plants that were imported from Japan. We saw a variety of wild life in central Buones Aires the ornamental carp, Oscar, herons cormorants. A dream come true for myself as the heron is my favourite bird and one that I have painted on silk... Jon managed to get 12 shots of the bird (photos of course)...the price to me a shot of whisky for himself if the photos were successful...(no one sells whisky at the restaurants that we went to so a folklore compact disc sufficed).
Later we found out that Gabriel Navaro an eminent lawyer who had been taking cocaine had been under surveillance by the police for 36 hours due to the fact he was barricaded in his home, armed with a M16 machine gun to protect himself... (he had intended to mortally wound a builder with an electric drill the day before).
A folklore evening superb food, wine and good company...(more on folklore later).
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