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Title: Motivo de Puerto

The bookmark has a quote in two languages.

In Spanish - "A todo hombre que se sueña le falta un tornillo. Este tornillo no los volverá cuerdos; por el contrario los preservá contra la pérdida de esa locura luminosa de la que se sienten orgullosos."

In English - "Every man who dreams has a screw loose. Awarding them this screw will not make them sane. On the contrary, it will prevent them from losing that bright madness of which they are proud."

Available for purchase for AR$2 [2007] at the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum.

From the end of Diagonal Norte street, no crowd during the weekend.

The obelisk as viewed from the Avenida 9 de Julio and Corrientes intersection, at night. The 9 de Julio street is the widest street in the world - to cross it first walk across 9 lanes, then though the mid-section which is also that wide, and then another 9 lanes with traffic going the other way.

Ticket good for 10 rides, each time you take a ride, the time and the number of rides left is printed on the back of the ticket.

Marini Gourmet at Avenida Santa Fe 3666. A excellent buffet, with lot of choices, and live shows in some evenings.

Marini Gourmet at Avenida Santa Fe 3666. A excellent buffet, with lot of choices. Even though a buffet, food is cooked to order at four stations - fish, beef, pasta, desserts, etc. Good when you have had too much beef in Buenos Aires (or also if you need more!). Price for one person is US$10 to $15, drinks additional.

Estadio River Plate - Huge stadium in Buenos Aires, filled with Roger Waters/Pink Floyd fans. This stadium is in the middle of a neighbourhood full of houses! So entering the stadium means a 30 minute walk around the streets to get to the correct entrance. Strange location for so many houses - wonder if the houses were built first (then how was a stadium allowed?) or if the houses came after the stadium was built (then why would anyone want to live next to a loud stadium)?
But the Roger Waters show was great, it included the iconic flying pig with graffiti such as "Encierren a Bush antes de que nos mate a todos" (Lock Bush up before he kills us all). Though - this was a very large stadium, and for the people in the field, it was impossible to see the stage. There was a large VIP area in front with over US$100 tickets, but most of the crowd was way back, and with poor stage organization (should they not have raised the stage higher), it was not as good as it could have been. I expected more of a Grateful Dead environment - where you can see the stage even when standing at the end of the field, this was not as friendly.