Loco X Futbol!

(Katherine) Knowing that we had a big day planned for Saturday, we decided to have a mellow evening on Friday and went to a bar in our neighborhood called Milión. This is a converted 3-story mansion from 1913 which very much maintained the look and feel of the original house. The cocktails were all very pricey, but we were able to enjoy a bottle of rosé for a very reasonable price. This is also one of the few venues where people were dressed up and girls wearing short skirts and tank tops. In general, women seem to dress a bit more conservative down here, so you don't see an abundance of skin.


Saturday morning we work up early (for us) and packed up a picnic lunch with cocktails and started to walk out the door to Plaza San Martín to watch the Argentina soccer game. However, we opened the door and saw it was pouring rain, so we headed back upstairs to watch the match. Later that afternoon, we headed to Loco X Futbol for our US/England match reservation. The bar was actually quite dead, and there only appeared to be one other table of Americans. We really enjoyed the game though, and were pretty impressed with the US goalie, Tim Howard – we also learned his name because a fan behind us kept shouting “let's go Timmy!”

After the game we headed home for a siesta and woke up at midnight to make dinner and prep for another visit to The Basement (Irish pub with a club downstairs.) We arrived around 3:15am which apparently is the start of prime time at the club. We quickly met a fellow named Nacho who was from BA and his friend who was from Holland. They were very cool and we exchanged information in the hopes to hang out again. Generally speaking, we haven't really met many people here other than making chit-chat with the service people we encounter. We're hoping to visit a couple of “American” bars this week to see if there are any other US travelers down here, because we certainly haven't met any yet!

And by the way, although we were able to put ourselves on a Porteño schedule on Saturday, the late night out pretty much wiped us out for Sunday – we don't know how these people do it!