Breakfast at Cafe Tortoni's

This morning we walked a couple of blocks to Cafe Tortoni's. We love to go here for breakfast if you can call it that. It is a famous old cafe (the oldest in Buenos Aires). Once we had lunch here which was mediocre. However the churros and chocolate special which is a pot of thick rich chocolate is divine. We ordered that and a pot of hot chocolate and a submarine. You can see in the picture below that it is an actual submarine shaped chocolate bar that you drop into your hot milk. This is why I come to Argentina. Well one of the reasons why.

This is a chocolate lovers dream. See the little submarine? Do you think I have a chocolate problem? Is there a support group anywhere for this?

On Wednesday evening we finished up with NRT in Cordoba. This is the group we have been working with. They are all wonderful. It was an eight hour drive yesterday back into Buenos Aires. Lots of farm land, it actually looked alot like home sometimes. Today we walked around and took one of the city bus tours to see as much as we could of the city. It is very European feeling. The Argentine people are very nice and have a passion for life.

Tomorrow morning we are flying to Asuncion Paraguay. We have friends there also and always look forward to seeing them again. Paraguay is a great place also.

Mendoza to Cordoba Argentina

On Tuesday we drove from Mendoza to Cordoba. Mendoza is a lovely city but we nearly froze there. It is early spring here. It snowed in the mountains above the city. The drive took us about 10 hours. We stopped along the way to take pictures. We also stopped for a wonderful lunch in a little resort town called NoNo. The Argentines with us ordered goat. Everything was cooked outside on a big grill. Very very good. They know how to cook here.

Below is Jeff helping the group understand how to make this NRT course work for them.

The next picture was taken of a little ranch built into the surroundings. If you can enlarge the picture you can see the man with a lasso.

I am holding the mate supplies of one of our group. EVERYONE here drinks it. It looks like hay and herbs floating in the leather cup. They drink it through a silver spoon that filters out the debris. They carry around the leather bag to carry their stuff.

Finally a shot of a condor that flew over us. It is a really big, really cool bird. More pictures to come. We are headed out the door for another long all day drive back into Buenos Aires. I love that , well not really. We have seven adults in a small SUV along with lots of luggage. We laugh, sleep, sigh and look forward to each stop to stretch our legs. We get to have tomorrow off to explore Buenos Aires. We love the city and look forward to checking out our favorite places. Saturday morning we will fly over to Paraguay. Will try to post again as time permits.