good-bye Buenos Aires, hello Madrid
It´s been over two weeks since we´ve written so there is a lot to catch up on!
We returned to Buenos Aires to do all the things we missed out on the first time. We walked around Recoleta neighborhood, went to see Evita's tomb in the famous Recoleta cementery and went to the National Museum where the highlight was an original Freida. We went to the MALBA, the modern art museum. Gadi showed me places of his childhood, such as his old homes and parks he went to as a child.
Just want to say a special thanks to our close friend Pablo. The best night was when Pablito took us out on the town...we started with a house party then made it to our first bar at 1am. We made our way to the second club where we danced all night to Latino music and finally made our way towards the third bar at 6am (but it was closing). The next day, we had to spend all day in bed, recuperating.
We are also so grateful to Tia Susy (the aunt of Gadi´s mom) who trusted us enough with her apartment while she went on vacation. She is the sweetest lady who stoked her fridge full of food for us to enjoy.
Enough thank-you´s for now. We ended the South America portion of our trip and moved on to Europe! Madrid is a beautiful city and lovely palaces and parks.
We arrived in Madrid just in time for the first night of Pesach (Passover). We had arraged to go to a community seder (dinner for pesach) at the Sefaradi orthodox centre. When we arrived we were told that we did not reserve our seats so we won´t have a place to stay. While waiting to see if they can accommodate us a very nice Argentinean approached us and offer us free tickets! They were worth 35 Euros so it was really nice. Gadi noticed a girl which looked very familiar. It turned out that she was Yannina a friend of our friend Judith from Winnipeg. Yannina came to Winnipeg in 2007 to visit her. She was a sweety and invited us to stay at her house. This came very handy because it was Semana Santa (Easter week) and all the beds seem to be booked for the whole week in Madrid.
Yannina invited us with her friends to play T.E.G. (also known at R.I.S.K.) and also to do some trekking in La Pedriza. Yanih also included me in her "girl's night out". We went to a friend's house where we made daiquiris after daiquiris after daiquiris. The night ended with a nightclub where we danced till the morning. So much fun! Poor Gadi had to stay home alone...
We found a cheap flight to Marrakech, Morocco which was less than taking the bus and ferry. Marrakech is really exotic but we'll fill you in later.