A japanese garden

Japanese Garden

So am trying to catch up with some postings to let you know what we got up to last week when we took some time out from the spanish lessons to have a look around BsAs.  On the Monday we took a while to sort out a few practical bits and pieces so just went for a wander around Palermo and visited the japanese garden.  The garden itself was OK, and had a number of good elements like the lake with koi carp, the bridge, the maple trees, etc, but there was one problem that made it impossible for it to work.  My understanding of a japanese garden is that is a place for quiet contemplation.  Unfortunately this one has major roads on two sides and a flight path overhead.  It really didn't work.  So we went to the shops instead, but we were good and resisted buying anything.

In the evening we suddenly remembered that the next Argentina match in Copa America was on so we dived into the nearest restaurant where we could both get seats facing the screen.  I won't talk about the football as I posted on that already, but it was a good choice of place as the meal had an oriental slant to it, was very good and made a welcome change from all of the steak - hard to believe I can say that given my general ability to eat steak until it comes out of my ears, but even I appreciate a change sometimes!