Buenos Aires, Argentina: Evita y Tigre

Yesterday, Anna and I began our day with an absolutely delicious breakfast loaded with fresh fruit in the center of Buenos Aires.  Delicious!

After breakfast, we visited the Evita museum, which is housed in one of the social aid houses that Eva Peron founded.  The museum tells her life story, from her humble beginnings in a poor Argentinian town to her rise to influence as the president's wife to her early death at the age of 33.  The focus is, obviously, the great works and laws she instituted for the poor, women, and elderly, but all displays some artifacts from her life, such as these dresses.

The building itself isn't half-bad either, with some really well-appointed rooms, such as this receiving salon decorated with azulejo tiles.

After Evita, Anna and I caught the shadiest train ever (we were literally sitting on the floor of a storage car for an hour) to Tigre, a suburb on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.  Tigre is on the Rio Tigre, and was originally a vacation spot for the rich of Buenos Aires.  Since then, it has morphed into a sort of day-trippers' magnet, with an amusement park, casino, boat cruises, and tons of little cafes and restaurants.

One of Tigre's more impressive mansions on the river.

Though there was nothing extraordinarily special about Tigre, it was nice to be on the water for the afternoon, to get out of the city a bit, and to see where the Argentines go to get away.  After getting back to the city (on a slightly-less-shady train), we went out to an amazing steak dinner at this hole-in-the-wall joint in the neighborhood where our hostel is located.  It was the kind of place where ten of us showed up, and instead of making us wait, the just set up some folding tables on the sidewalk outside the restaurant.  The food was great, though!