A day at sea and we arrive at Ushuaia and disembark – just in time for the perfectly timed worker’s demo (8.30am) about the Government cutting their wages by 5% to spend on social security and health initiatives. Police and SWAT squad lined the 2 streets alongside the hotel we were relaxing in, waiting to catch the flight to Buenos Aires. I decided to walk around and covertly take some pics of what’s happening…getting quite good at that. Trained myself when catching penguins by surprise 🙂

Also saw an unexpected series of images by a local photographer, Sergio, at the Ushuaia prison museum – of penguins – gorgeous detailed shots.

4 hours uneventful flight to Buenos Aires and I take a cab to my hotel in the Recoleta district – coming to Avenida de Mayo, we are stopped in our tracks by a demo. It takes a while to read the banners and then I realise its an International Women’s Day March!

The march’s length goes for at least 1 km either side of the cross road I’m on. Great to see such an embrace of the occasion. At 6pm…right in the middle of rush hour…..I got out of the cab and took the photos, hopping back in just in time when the taxi took off, there was a gap in the march and some the traffic forced itself through the cross street. 

My little apartment is lovely, and handy – right opposite the famous Recoleta cemetery, where Eva Peron, numerous Argentinian Presidents, and ‘intelligentsia’ were buried. Recoleta is also famous for its art, culture precinct and food, just my sort of hang out.