We spent the next 3 hours driving around Buenos Aires with Evelyn and a driver, Ilmar. We went first to the cemetery at Recoleta and saw wonderful mausoleums, including Evita's.
We heard amazing stories about her. She died in 1952 and her body was finally buried in 1977.
The city is very attractive and we saw parks, squares, statues, Jacaranda trees and "drunken sticks", or palo borracho, which are odd-looking trees with thorns and orange flowers.
Then we saw the Casa Rosada and the balcony where Evita stood and addressed the people.
Evelyn told us many stories of bribery and corruption. Argentina is in dire financial trouble and we saw long queues at the banks. We drove on to La Boca, famous for its football team where Maradona played. Their opponents and sworn enemies are the River Plate team. La Boca has brightly-coloured houses with amusing looking statues on the balconies and in the streets.
In the evening we had a lovely barbecue at the Fox's house in San Isidro. We heard that Ricardo from the Portuguese film company has become a father ( a boy).
