Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was on born February 14, 1811, in San Juan. He was outspoken about dictatorships and exiled to Chile in 1840 by Juan Manuel de Rosas (dictator of Argentina for 17 years). Sarimento wrote a book about de Rosas, Facundo.
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“What are you going to see in Puerto Rico?” People would ask when they heard we were going to San Juan (even though we said we were going to Argentina). So this became a bit of a joke with my Argentine friend and I.
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Buenos Aires is like a Spanish NY to us. La Boca is our Little Italy, San Telmo is like our LES, Recoleta our 5th Ave, Palermo SoHo our SoHo, Puerto Madero our DUMBO. We didn’t expect to it to feel like home except everyone spoke Spanish and instead of break dancers in the street – you have tango. And a lot of stuff was made in China just like the states. One thing they have that we don’t – gelato from Chocolates Rapa Nui – lemon pie and triple tentacion is to die for.
Depending how you see it, you either cross the widest river in the world or the marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean. Colonia del Sacremento sits across the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires.
A short walk after stepping off the ferry you enter historic Colonia via drawbridge. A friendly stray dog greeted us a few blocks away and accompanied us through most of our tour! Enrique was a nice surprise – I named all the stray animals. Continue reading
Jebus Mews & Andrea 