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Wednesday 3rd Oct. - A nice sleep in this morning compared to the last two days, after a quick skype to Liam and breakfast we booked out and did a little shopping. Stopping to look at the San Francisco Church which was built 1789 - 1796 on land that was gifted to the Franciscan Monks when the city was founded. The 57-metre tower was built on in 1870 making it one of the highest in America. It's a very pretty church and is quite Italian style. We were told by Jorge before we headed to Salta we much go to "Patio De La Empanada", in Jorje's opinion they are the best empanadas in town! So we googled the place and headed there for lunch. Looking at the menu we decided on Empanadas de Carne, Pollo & Verdura (Meat, Chicken & Vegetable), there was one called Empanadas de Mondongo - soooo glad we didn't order that one, the Spanish dictionary said it was "guts". Any way the ones we had were delicious - thanks Jorje. Wandering around the streets we come across the markets by accident that I wanted to look at, a good place for local produce and artisan stuff. There were many stalls with bowls of spices - if I knew what Jorge liked to cook with I would have brought him some. Some of the food produce was questionable! Especially the meat. We managed to buy up a couple of things and headed back to the hotel for the airport bus. Another nice easy transfer to the airport in plenty of time to sit and have a coffee. Every chance possible when we have wifi Robs practises his Italian on duo-lingo, he has reached the "over achieved award!" well - I guess it has come in handy that he speaks Italian. We have also picked up a reasonable bit of Spanish to order food and be polite. On arrival back to Buenos Aires we were again met by Jorge at the Airport, and headed home for a nice light tea, and a chat learning more about Argentina. I have really enjoyed our dinner time discussions with Jorge & Cristina, learning lots about Argentina's history, politics, the "bumba bumba" protests in the streets, the country features and of course knowing more about the family and becoming part of it.
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