Rosario

Ah, nothing like a 7:30am arrival at a bus station that rivals a small airport in size to make you feel like a 'traveller'. A coffee and a media luna (croissant) later and we felt ready to work out how to get into the city. Typically, the long distance station was a little way out of town, which meant negotiating the local bus service... after such a lengthly journey we were not at our best, so this task felt more difficult than it probably should, coffee or no coffee! (And thanks to the guy who helped us out with change for the bus... and then got off before we could pay him back.)




Rosario was an attractive city, quite leafy with enough to occupy us for a few days. although the natural history museum seemed to be a school - a recurring theme i feel?! we did however visit an art gallery which was interesting because of the building - a converted grain silo - rather than the modern art within. we also stumbled on the red light district, and enquired at the railway station nearby about the possiblily of getting to Buenos Aires by train. Feasible, but only if you want to travel on one of the 3 trains that leaves each week. Looks like it's the bus again... On the 15th we went to the beach, even though we were 300km inland. the Rio Paraná is incredibly wide, in fact it's navigable all the way up to Asuncion in Paraguay. It's quite strange to be on an island in the middle of a river, sat on a sandy beach (with 80's pop music pumping out of speakers), only to see a massive ocean going freight ship glide past.

We liked Rosario.

Hannah