Did I just spend an entire week eating pastries, shopping for a sweater and changing hostels?Jaded, I awoke from an "overnighter" (A bus...not "caining it") to find the people on the other side of the window leaving vapour trails, decked out in "winter clobber". Yesterday was spent in vest...
... What had happened since last night? (The cheap champagne and the 80s ballads that this particular tour bus offered up as entertainment)
Funny ol`place, Buenos Aires is.... looks bit like a european city, they (...the airens) speak their Spanish with bit of Italian twang... eat pizza and pasta n shit.
It didn`t take long to establish my (micro) fleece and rain jacket simply wouldn`t "cut the mustard"....
Besides...what with it being a cosmopolitan city n all, and the fact that I decided to stay in the "uberkooliche" district of Perlermo... I decided my (supposedly) "weatherproof" garments were massively uncool...
...Had I lost my identity over my fabrics "technical abilities"?
I even found myself telling fellow backpackers (in our very unheated hostels) "this isn`t how I normally dress" (a massively uncool statement in itself).
... I needed to feel cool again...
(...That...and....NOT FUCKING FREEZING...)
I got straight to work...
It turns out the boutiques of Parlermo didn`t fit within my modest backpackers budget.
And the local high street offerings wearn`t exactly my idea of cool.
(In pity) Someone had told me a great Sunday market... The kind that sells "threads" by up and coming designers...The kind that was within my financial means...
GREAT!
(...Although it was Tuesday)
So I spent the remainder of the week seeking ways in which to keep warm....
taking in BAs cultural offerings (....indoor offerings)
Coffee shops
Eating big fuck off steaks
...even signed up to the local gym.
I must admit I wore my Merino Wool socks for the entire week...(In fact I still am)
Sunday (finally) came....and in that true "up yours" fashion...it lashed it down with rain...
(...the kind of rain that isn`t suitable for market transactions)
Had I wasted an entire week in the pursuit of warmth?
Reflecting on my departure (in my newly bought Zara jumper/hat)... I might not have hit everything on the checklist, I had probably spent a small fortune "trying to keep warm"
(...enough to buy a "boutique" sweater)
...that despite these things.... I may not have wasted my time in this City....
Isn`t that what most people do in city's?
...run errands, visit coffee shops, eat in restaurants, occasionally visit a gallery...
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