The last weekend in Buenos Aires now comes to an end. The upcoming week will be busy with finishing the work we have started, preparing and conducting the final presentation at Puerta 18 on Thursday afternoon and participating in the closing event at SAP Argentina with panel discussions of each subteam on Friday. On Saturday, April 30, my flight to Frankfurt will bring me back home and into the office routine at Walldorf.
Let me start in reverse chronology. Today on Sunday, the central event was the asado at Carolina's place. She is our coordinator from Pyxera, guiding us through our work with the clients and providing us ever-patient with any help. Together with her family (husband, two boys, three girls), she lives roughly 40km from our place at Palermo, and to get there, she organized a van for all of us - so we had a group trip there! An asado is a barbeque event, and so we had different sorts of grilled specialities, such as "choripan" - a roll with a sausage in it -, "matambre" - the word meaning "kill hunger", the dish being deliciously seasoned pork -, a cheese that is grilled and eaten with roll, and of course beef that was perfectly prepared and just melted in the mouth! Among Los Buenos there are several team members who usually prefer vegetarian food - and I wouldn't exclude myself from this group right away - but here it was almost impossible to resist. Very delicious, great people, excellent way to spend the Sunday together in a very typical Argentine way!
Many thanks to Carolina and her family for inviting us!!
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| Knives to cut the meat from the asado |
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| After the asado, it was music time! Rob brought his guitar, which in this photo was played by Juami - many more joined in to sing |
Now for some more sightseeing from Saturday: Together with Los Buenos team member Mo, I went to the
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA). The museum contains paintings, sculptures and more exhibits from the pre-Renaissance time up to art of the 20th century. As the weather was looking stable after we left the musem, we decided to pay the La Recoleta cemetery a visit. Although for me, it was the second time, I was excited to return there - after
my first visit, I was feeling that I could have spent much more time there! And again, the atmosphere of the place just caught me - so many details to see, so many views and perspectives...
Finally, we hopped on a cab to go to "
Caminito" in La Boca. This little street in La Boca is famous for its colorful houses, and you see tango dancers in the streets. It is quite a tourist hotspot, but it was just fun to walk around and take pictures. When taking a turn in the neighborhood, we managed to get some insight into the less touristy areas. Our walk ended at the famous stadium of
Club Atlético Boca Juniors. The Argentines are famous for their passion about soccer! And as you can imagine, our team Los Buenos gets involved in some small talk about soccer - having members from Italy, the Netherlands and Germany in the team! (Not covered in this blog: Last Thursday, most of the subteams together with their clients participated in soccer matches in an indoor stadium - after that, we had a common dinner in a Pizza restaurant.)
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| Auguste Rodin |
La Recoleta cemetery: Should I ever come to Buenos Aires again, I will return to you!
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| Two birds |
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| Two coffins |
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| Too tempting - just had to take this photo! |
Impressions from Caminito in La Boca:
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| Yeah, I can also take pictures of people... and there were plenty of them in La Boca! |
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| At this time of the day, the weather brightened up and provided a light that made it impossible not to attempt catching it with a camera! |
And finally some photos from our Friday evening subteam celebration - after returning from the office, our Puerta 18 subteam decided to have a glass of wine on the rooftop during sunset. Of course, I couldn't resist to take some photos:
