Some bumps

Ah...how I love banks in other cities. False. So, I am trying to reserve all the nights I will be staying in various hostels around Patagonia. One such hostel asked that I send part of the payment as a reservation through the Banco Nacion de Argentina. Well, turned out there was quite the line...Coti met me at the bank but thought it would only be 15 min and when we both saw the size of the line I told her to go back to work and I'll figure it out.

After waiting in line for probably 1 hr and 20 min I arrived to the caja (clerk). Only to be greeted with documents I had to fill out, which conveniently were filled with words that I never come across. I think it was pretty obvious I was a foreigner and thus got some help, but alas at the end she told me my debit card would not work and I had to be a client of the bank or have one of their cards. How is that possible for me to achieve when I just want to deposit a little bit of money into some other person's account? Ah...so infuriating. I was almost on the verge of tears because I was so frustrated from standing in line for such a long time only to be rejected. I turned my frustration into anger and kept walking to Puerto Madero.

There I stopped for some ice cream at Freddo's and sat and enjoyed the view. Puerto Madero is the youngest barrio of BA and turns out to be my age! Born in 1989, well according to the posters I kept seeing. It is a very nice area with water, bridges, brick buildings. I took my time strolling up the walkways and visited Fragata Sarmiento a ship that made over 100 trips around the world or long ones at least. It was very interesting and had a little too much information.

Later that night I met up with Coti and her friend at the Konex, a kind of industrial outside warehouse. Bomba de Tiempo a really good drum group was going to perform. An amazing location, amazing music and very very fun. The most tourists I have seen thus far though. After that we left to meet Alfo (friend I met in Italy) at a restaurant. Had my very first Asada, yay! So good, I just would not recommend the spleen. Not sure if I really enjoyed the taste, however the rest was very good. My favorite is chorizo thus far. A good end on a day that began not so well.