Hi, my name is Julia Gonzalez and I welcome you to my channel. If you've never been here
before I love to travel, to experience new cultures and amazingly delicious foods.
This week I say adios to the sweltering temps of South Florida and Hola to the chilly weather in
Buenos Aires Argentina. Join me as I share with you, my long travel day. A great spot to have your
first of many steaks in Buenos Aires and what $65 a day will get you in accommodations.
I knew traveling to Argentina was going to be a long day so I already prepared myself
mentally for what I was in for. I'll share one piece of advice for any of your
future travels get to the airport early. There are so many obstacles from the time you leave
your home to the time you arrive to your gate that can potentially make you miss your flight.
And for me I always like to have enough time to enjoy at least one cocktail to ease the nerves.
Good sign for this flight this is a beautiful dog that I fell in love with.
Bad sign for this flight there's no TVs so for the first three hours to Bogota,
it was creative thinking time.
I finally arrived in Bogota but I only had enough time to get off
the plane and go through security to board my flight to Argentina. Good
news though I have TV, so for the next six hours I could just sit and relax.
Finally Buenos Aires you are in my sight. Once I touch down and go through customs, find a taxi,
to travel to our Airbnb for the night. It will be a total of 18 hours of traveling.
The first thing the next morning I needed coffee, STAT. So I hit the streets on the hunt. To my lovely
surprise I found this cute little spot called Cafe Pulin. Where I felt from the looks of it
everyone should already know my name. The staff was so welcoming and quick to help me with my
much needed dilemma, of coffee and food. I'm a very simple Girl cafe Americano all the way. Then I
look at when my husband orders and I'm immediately jealous, immediately. Our travel was long.
This beauty was amazing, ham tomato hard-boiled eggs with cheese.
My morning maid thank you very much!
Take a ride with me to our fifth floor Airbnb.
Just a few blocks away from Plaza de Mayo so we're centrally located. We can
walk to dozens of bars and restaurants, we have groceries nearby, it's very easy and
convenient. So as you can see we get a spacious living area, let me show you the cute view,
so much history.
So we're gonna be here for the next three weeks so we need some living space because we do work
in the evenings. When we're here and we like to space out a little bit, so let me show you the rest.
This sexy red hallway will lead us to the rest of the living quarters. All right we have
the spacious kitchen, I can't get over how big this kitchen is it has everything we
need. Microwave, range, and a place to wash the dishes. It suits us just perfectly.
Down from the kitchen, we have a spare full bath and three more bedrooms.
Now for the master, it has a nice comfy bed, really nice pillows, which that's really important to have comfy
pillows when you're traveling. So thank you to our Airbnb host. And then the master bath. So
we have two full baths here, three bedrooms, a full kitchen, and lovely living space.
For $65 a night. Okay so we went to the grocery store and we've got all of this,
We got some sugar and obviously, that's for
our coffee, yum yum, we got some agua, dish soap, we have laundry here, so got some laundry
detergent, milk, for the coffee, we got paper towels, sponge to do the dishes. Wine, Malbec,
which is produced here in Argentina
And some good old American Coca-Cola. Total for all our groceries including the two reusable bags.
That's right, two reusable bags.
We will reuse these bags for the next three weeks. Total for all the groceries. $16 American Dollars.
Crazy. After some grocery shopping and setting up the Airbnb, I was hungry. So I was ready for
some steak. And I've been told this is the City to go to. So tonight I'm heading out to
LA Brigada, defined by many as a classic of Buenos Aires. I've heard so many wonderful things, I wanted
to see for myself what this place was all about. So clearly the owner is a football fan,
the restaurant is covered in treasures from all different teams and players. Pictures of
sports Heroes directors and presidents with handwritten messages cover each inch of this
restaurant. Not only is it a restaurant but it appears to be a museum as well.
We start with a bottle of the Malbec wine produced right here in Argentina.
And what's better than Malbec wine? Well wait like okay it's not better
but a second best and another great start to the meal? Beef empanadas and
they look like they were made with love it it reminds me of a little piece of sunshine.
Now for something I've never had before Provoleta. Which is a grilled cheese. Provoleta,
is an Argentine variant of provolone cheese. Described as the Argentine pulled- curd provolone
cheese. It's eaten grilled in Argentina it can be made on the grill or indoors
in a cast iron pan. The cheese should be firm and able to hold its shape when grilled AND
no, I don't want to know what the calories were. All that matters is it was delicious.
Now for what I have come here for the beef tenderloin and it's starting off strong. You can
already see it's so tender he's not even using a knife he's using a spoon to cut it.
A spoon! I really don't have any words that's what you're getting out of me it was delicious,
I mean, I can't I mean you can't even say it's delicious, it's like amazing it's like
the best piece of meat I've probably ever had. Yeah so apparently it is not customary to add
ice cream to desserts here in Argentina. But my husband knows that I'm such a silly gringa and
love my ice cream that he asked them to add it for me so we shared this amazing bread pudding.
So for dinner at La Bragata, we had one
one tenderloin steak, with a side of salad and fries. one bread pudding with a side of
ice cream, for a total of sixty dollars. Well that concludes my first day here in Buenos
Aires Argentina. Wow, I had an amazing time and this is only the start. If you'd like
more travel videos make sure to hit that subscribe button, more to come from my stay
here in Argentina. And until next time get out, there's a whole world you deserve to see