San Telmo

My first hotel when I arrived in Buenos Aires was in the suburb of San Telmo. This area is part of the District Historico (old town).

There are a lot of old buildings, cobbled stone streets and the area if full of character.
I stayed at the Hotel Carly on Humberto Primo. It was a bit run down, but I had my own room and a balcony overlooking the street, which seemed great to begin with. The bathrooms were down the hallway and I had to share them with everyone else. There was three on my floor so it was always easy to get one. However the toilet shared the space with a bidet and the shower. So I was standing beside the toilet while I was having a shower! very interesting.
I decided to venture around San Telmo street by street. The streets form a grid pattern so it made for easy exploring. But I had to watch where I stepped, because lot´s of people have dogs here and there aren´t really any parks in San Telmo so there is lots of doggy doo doo to watch out for.

I have taken lot´s of photo´s of the houses and buildings of San Telmo and will post them at some stage soon. The houses were once lived in by the very rich people, but Yellow fever spread through the area and the rich people moved to escape the disease. Some of the houses have been restored, but alot are still very run down.

There is one street in San Telmo call Defensa, it is where all the antiques shops are located and there is even a mercado (market). This is where I had my lunch which was like a quiche, but I am not exactly sure what they call it here. It had egg and zucchini in it and was served warm. Very delicious.

I was very tired from all my walking so I got myself some beer and went back to the hotel, I sat out on the balcony and watched the passing parade of people. There was a clothing store opposite that was playing very loud music all afternoon and into the early evening. I decided to have an afternoon nap and woke later to the thumping noise of a bar across the street that had started up while I was sleeping. Their music kept going until around 5am..... so from that day on I started wearing ear plugs to bed.