S7022120.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Recoleta Cemetery
S70218Pan2.jpg=Buenos Aires - the ornate Retiro Mitre [railway station]
S702185.jpg=Buenos Aires - the ornate Retiro Mitre [railway station]
S702214.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square and Catedral Primada de Buenos Aires
S7022112.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
S7022111.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
S702184.jpg=Buenos Aires - short trip into the city
S702215.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square
20180218_234535.jpg=Buenos Aires - near the railway stations
S7022110.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
Nik0221.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square
20180218_192739.jpg=Buenos Aires - Tugs getting ready to attach tow ropes whilst on the move
20180218_235331.jpg=One of Argentina's largest railway stations Retiro Mitre. The French-style station building was designed by the British architects Eustace L. Conder, Roger Conder and Sydney G. Follet together with the engineer Reginald Reynolds. Building began in June 1909. The steel structure for the building was made in Liverpool, England, and re-assembled in Argentina. For many years it was considered to be the most important example of structural engineering in South America and architecturally one of the finest buildings in the world.
20180221_010908.jpg=The San Martín National Institute - is a cultural foundation in Buenos Aires dedicated to the legacy of General José de San Martín, the Liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Perú. It occupies a reproduction of San Martín's home in Le Grand-Bourg, France while in exile [1834-1848]
S702183.jpg=Buenos Aires - interesting to watch the tug boat crew attach tow ropes on a moving ship
0221_BA.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
S70218.jpg=Buenos Aires - short trip into the city
S70218Pan1.jpg=Buenos Aires - the ornate Retiro Mitre [railway station]
S7022114.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
S7022119.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Recoleta Cemetery
S70222.jpg=Buenos Aires - beside the Dazzler Recoleta Hotel
S702216.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square
S702187.jpg=Buenos Aires - the MSC Poesia [cruise ship]. What a coincidence; we were on this ship's maiden cruise in 2008 [Dover to Venice]
S702217.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
Nik02184.jpg=Buenos Aires - the ornate Retiro Mitre [railway station]
February1.jpg=Our final port of call - Buenos Aires [Argentina]
S702186.jpg=Buenos Aires - the ornate [local] railway station
S70218Pan.jpg=Buenos Aires - short trip into the city [Plaza San Martin/San Martin Square]
20180220_230042.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square - Catedral Primada de Buenos Aires
S70221.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square
S7022113.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
S702218.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
20180221_011905.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Recoleta Cemetery
Nik02182.jpg=Buenos Aires - short trip into the city [Plaza San Martin/San Martin Square]
S7022116.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Recoleta Cemetery
S702219.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Boca district
20180218_200552.jpg=Buenos Aires - Zaandam using its power
Nik0218Pan1.jpg=Buenos Aires - waterfront and harbour
Nik02212.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square - Catedral Primada de Buenos Aires
S7022115.jpg=Buenos Aires
Nik02183.jpg=Dieu et mon droit, meaning God and my right, is the motto of the Monarch of the United Kingdom
20180221_004155.jpg=Puerto Madero
Nik0218Pan2.jpg=Buenos Aires - our early morning arrival
S70221Pan07.JPG=Plaza de Mayo Square, the site of Argentina’s most important historical events
Nik02211.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square - Catedral Primada de Buenos Aires
20180221_010453.jpg=Buenos Aires [Argentina] - Floralis Generica
recoletta-cemetery-cr.jpg=La Recoleta Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and a granddaughter of Napoleon. In 2011, the BBC hailed it as one of the world's best cemeteries, and in 2013, CNN listed it among the 10 most beautiful cemeteries in the world.
S70218Pan4.jpg=Buenos Aires - a drink at the portside market then back to Zaandam for our final night
S702212.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square - Catedral Primada de Buenos Aires
S7022122.jpg=Eva María Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Perón or Evita. She was born in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. At 15 in 1934, she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. She met Colonel Juan Perón there on 22 January 1944 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina. The two were married the following year. Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina in 1946; during the next 6 years, Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.  In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Perón was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress.
S702182.jpg=Buenos Aires - disembarking Zaandam we spotted this display of rare guitars
S7022118.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Recoleta Cemetery
20180221_004526.jpg=A bronze monument to Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995), the Argentinean Grand Prix driver who was the first to win five Formula One driver's championships, and arguably one of the world's finest auto racing drivers. He is depicted with his Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix car, which he raced in Formula One in 1954 and 1955.
Nik0218.jpg=Buenos Aires - interesting to watch the tug boat crew attach tow ropes
S70218Pan13.JPG=Buenos Aires - the MSC Poesia [cruise ship].
S702181.jpg=Torre Monumental and before 1982 Torre de los Ingleses (Tower of the English) is a clock tower located in the barrio (district) of Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is situated in the Plaza Fuerza Aérea Argentina (formerly Plaza Británica) next to the Calle San Martín and Avenida del Libertador. It was a gift from the local British community to the city in commemoration of the centennial of the May Revolution of 1810.\
After the Falklands War in 1982, the tower was renamed Torre Monumental, though some still call it Torre de los Ingleses.
S7022121.jpg=The Duarte mausoleum [Eva Peron - 1919-1952]
Nik02181.jpg=Buenos Aires - waterfront and harbour
S70218Pan3.jpg=Buenos Aires - the ornate [local] railway station
Nik0218Pan.jpg=Buenos Aires - waterfront and harbour
S702213.jpg=Plaza de Mayo Square - Catedral Primada de Buenos Aires
20180221_002610.jpg=Next, La Boca - a working-class area. Steakhouses and street artists surround Caminito, a narrow alley flanked by brightly painted zinc shacks that evoke the district’s early immigrant days.
S7022117.jpg=Buenos Aires - La Recoleta Cemetery
Nik02213.jpg=Designed to bloom during the day and close at night just like most real flowers do, Floralis Generica is a beautiful metallic sculpture that popped up in Buenos Aires back in 2002. The amazing aluminum and stainless steel art piece was created by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano.
20180218_230020.jpg=Buenos Aires - short trip into the city [Plaza San Martin/San Martin Square]
