On the way to San Telmo the taxi went a different way and we discovered the sadder side of Buenos Aires. A slum city beside the train tracks to the port. And some cardboard and scrap timber huts under the flyovers.
There is evidence everywhere of the ravages of the global meltdown with many, many places for sale and empty shops. But also lots of renovation work. And the footpaths are in constant flux. Where we are staying it seems every building has a different idea about what a footpath should be made of. And then there are the holes where the ideas didn't work so well. And like airports the world over it seems they will never be finished.
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