Buenos Aires - places tourists don't go.

Tigre is a town just north of Buenos Aires and it sits on the Parana Delta at an elevation of 2 metres

At Tigre there are lots of canals and waterways forming small islands in the delta and the town is on an island. In recent years this area, along the waterways, has become a fairly posh weekend retreat. A lot of the places are second homes but there are some people that live there permanently.

There's lots of 'messing around on the river' in motorboats, launches, rowing boats and canoes.

It appears that it's the women that do all the work






It's reminiscent of being on the Norfolk Broads


There are a lot of rowing clubs (just like home)


And riverside refuelling stations

 

There are lots of pretty riverside dwelling and Hydrangeas seem quite popular









But some people have other ideas

 

The Hydrangeas along the rivers were magnificent.





There was a pretty little chapel



Plenty of colour


And the holiday home of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, father of free education in Argentina, is preserved under glass



The supermarket come to you!

 

Thanks @mowgley

I've started on another thread and added links to that, into post No.1 of this thread, and a couple of others I've done.

 

joolz, the hot towel steamer is still in use and it stands by the working chairs in the barber shop. They use it whenever they are doing a shave.