Argentina has a long tradition of being "horsey".....here's a great old tile mural I found in one of the older subways
but its not just in bygone days that horses galloped the streets of BA...this week saw hundreds of horses racing around for the Bi Centennial horse exhibition/auction/contests....
Horsey folks came in from all over....this truck is painted in traditional "fileteado" designs...
here's the front of the same truck....
Friend Peter from the Isle of Mann came and stayed with us a few days this week.....
returning in time to go with us to the Australian Embassy fund raising cocktail party....we didn't win the door prize of two flights to Aucland, but did get to hob nob with fancy folks and eat amazing little fancy nibbles...
We also took Peter to an art opening of Ignacio Delucca's new paintings...we had seen his work before...very powerful abstract stuff, but his new works are quite different-light and lyrical ...inspired from his homeland in Misiones, up in the northern jungle of Argentina, full of animals and amazing plants...
Your food shot for this week is a great gazpachio I found in a small Spanish restaurant a few blocks away from our place in Montserrat....the topping is their house speciality...a calamari cervechi....the perfect light lunch on a hot day, recouperating from so many champagne parties this week....
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