Our Last Day in South America!

Tuesday 6th May

Today is our final day in South America :-(

So we decided just to wander around the central city, soaking up the atmosphere for the final time. We tried to visit some museums, but they were either closed for renovations (like Teatro Colon for instance - which I was especially gutted about) or just closed for the day. So we did some final souvenir shopping (and picked up a 1kg can of dulce de leche to bring home for me!), and then wandered around taking photos at Plaza de Mayo, the cathedral and some other cool buildings and stuff. By this stage our feet were starting to get quite sore (as we had done a lot of walking over the previous few days) so we decided to go and find some coffee and decent cake (which is harder than you think in this city of pastries and alfajores).

We stumbled on a great little place called "Cafe Florida" on Calle Tucuman (just past Calle Florida), where we found a huge selection of yummy looking cakes - we had dark choc brownie/mud cake and a cake that was a cross between a cake, mousse and cheesecake - very sweet, but oh so good!. I have been craving cake ever since we got back from Iguazu, so mow my craving has been well and truly satisfied.

We walked back to the hostal at 1700 and re-packed and collected all our gear together for the trip home. We got to the airport just after 1800, and then it took 40mins to check in (god knows what was taking them so long, the queue wasn't even that long). We bought six bottles of spirits at duty-free (only cost us about NZ$66!) and then sat around waiting to board.