Valentines day/ Tigre

During the month of February the summer holiday ends and the populated beaches slowly become less busy. In the city center of Buenos Aires there are suddenly more people on the street and the buses are more packed. On the 14 February it was Valentine's day.! Valentines day is not big at all here in Bueos Aires. You see very few men from work going home with roses. At restaurants you get a chocolate formed in a heart. There are some Valentines specials in shops, but otherwise that's it! I know in the USA Valentine is very big and Argentina is very close USA, but I wonder how Valentines Day is celebrated in other countries? Of course I love making something special out of these special days and that is way I organised with my brother A Valantines Special for my parents. We started by making a special breakfast for them. Sneaked out early to get fresh rolls and got my dads favorite cappochino. Then we did a 'show' with songs (the favorite songs of mom and dad) and dances. My mother did not have to cook today, so we went out for diner in a very nice restaurant named Juan M.



TIGRE (Buenos Aires)
.....But I havent written about our adventure to Tigre.
We went with the train from Retiro to Tigre just 45 minutes outside of Buenos Aires (like a Houtbay of Capetown). Tigre is a village with many little rivers and the people move with small boats and canos. For the Dutch it looks like Giethoorn. It is beautiful with lots of activity on the water and sunny foto moments of water, trees and people. When we arrived we were surprised how green and clean it was. My my mom and dad were mostly surprised, since they were in Tigre 15 years ago. Now Tigre was different, modern and new with a new train station and many new buildings.
We went with the taxiboat on the river to a guesthouse on one of the riverbanks. We saw the canos and before you knew it we where on the river ourselves canoing in between the speedboats and taxi's. They were driving very fast and we fell over a few times, because of the waves they made. We played badminton, then canoed again and after the weekend we said goodbye to our excellent hostess and host Carolina en Stef. Carolina is Argentinian and speaks very good English, is a very good cook and told us interesting stories over Argentina. Stef is Dutch and had an impressive collection of DVD's which we were allowed to watch after sunset. What was funny was that they had a dog named Nelson (named after Nelson Mandela) who somehow smelled that we were from South Africa. So he became our friend. Even Steven, who is always afraid of dogs, liked to play with Nelson.
So, after the weekend we went back to the mainland with the boat and we stayed a few more days in a hostel in the centre of Tigre. We walked around a lot and finally we found the place under the tree where my father ASKED my mother to marry her. That was exactly 15 years ago. Quickly I bought a flower and bright red cherries and of course we could not leave the spot looking over the Tigre River without having seen the KISS.


When we stayed in Tigre we lived next to a ice-cream shop. As you know my dad is a Big Fan of ice-cream!!! So,obviously we had to get a ice-cream but not in a cone, oooh nooo in a 2kg box.There are many  ice-cream flavours.They are all delicious !!! I scream,You scream we all scream for ICE-CREAM !! Since we stayed  next to a ice-cream shop they had extra  deliveries see picture. Who doesn't like ice-cream?

Gracias
louisa


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