Buenos Aries/BA to RIO Day 1

We caught a 9am flight from Ushuaia to Buenos Aries arriving in BA at 12:30.  Here we start the final leg of our South American adventure joining another trip tomorrow with Intrepid Travel where we will travel from Buenos Aires up to Rio de Janeiro over 17 days.  It was raining when we arrived and continued raining heavily all day.  The city was deserted, we assume because of the rain and it also being a Sunday.  About 4pm we were hungry so ventured out and managed to find a restaurant not too far from our hotel, we got a bit wet getting there though.  We had a lovely meal then returned to our hotel, once again in the rain.
We would have liked to go and see some street side donation tango shows and an a big street market in the evening at Plaza Dorerego, about a mile walk from where we're staying, but doubt anything much was happening in the heavy rain.

Our second day in Buenos Aires and it was still raining heavily when we woke up, they had 40 hours none stop rain so lots of localised flooding. It stopped raining luckily just in time for us to join an orientation walk of Buenos Aires with our new group leader at 1pm.  Fernanda, our guide, gave us a quick one hour tour of the central area, lits of European influence in the buildings, then we wandered off on our own down to the riverside, it seemed very similar to London in a way.  Then back via plaza Dorerego area with its older buildings and cobbled streets.

We had our official trip meet at 6pm, there are 16 of us, we're the only couple this time.   After the meeting we all went to a steak house for dinner and to start getting to know each other.  Next to the restaurant was a book shop, we had a quick look inside. It was once a theatre and is said to be one of the most beautiful book shops in the world, it was impressive.