Imagen blogging: Plaza Independencia

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Mendoza Week 18

I wander around to relax and shot street photography this week, I took some shots at a street entertainers working in a major intersection, and a soap bubble maker at Plaza Independencia.

Wondering around in Mendoza it’s one of my favorite thing to do, the sun is always out, this is the sunniest city I ever lived in.

Street entertainment

Plaza Independencia soap bubble maker

I doesn’t feel like Christmas is coming, but some store sells Christmas Trees and decorations, I asked around what was the Argentine way, apparently it’s really simple, family gathering around an asado, fruit salad, helado and sandwiches, not too much decoration, only biblical ones.
In Mendoza and I guess in Argentina they don't put their decoration out months in advance like we do in North America, they wait till the last few days before Christmas.

No snow for Christmas!

Helado is a great way to celebrate everything, I really enjoy trying deferent place, a lot of them are artisanal. What I am looking for is not as much as the creamy taste but the real taste of fruit or chocolate. I stopped by one of the biggest “Ferruccio Soppelsa” this week to try their dark chocolate and cherry helado, it was very good this one will go on my list.

The best ice cream

Sharing great moment with friends,

I also went to the mountain I will have a post about it in January when my post on Mendoza will resume,
Happy holidays to all,

Love

Diane:)))

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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Mendoza Week 11

Plaza Chile, art work using Topaz Impression

Monday and Tuesday was like always "shopping".

Wednesday we had our second meeting with Daniel Serio, he will be printing our work, he is a real pro, only uses the best paper, we will start with 13 pieces, we should get all of them by the end of next week.

Thursday I cooked the diner for Halloween, I wanted to make sure I can sit and relax with my friends, I did a beef stew, using round I wanted a lean cut of meat. I went to one of the best butcher a bit more expensive, about $11.00 per kilo, the price varied between $9.00 and $11.00.

Friday I did my shopping for the week end got my wine from my regular supplier, 3 bottles of 2011 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and 3 bottles of 2011 Grand Reserve Malbec, about $20.00 for all!

After what I decided to take some touristy pictures of 3 of the core Plazas “Plaza Independencia, Plaza Chile and Plaza San Martin”, Mendoza core design consist of 5 plazas, in a star pattern, a big one in the middle Plaza Independencia and 4 smalls two to the north Plaza Chile and Plaza San Martin and two to the South Plaza Italia and Plaza Espania.

The weather was a bit cooler that morning about 18C in the shade, I mention the shade because in Mendoza we don’t speak about humidex, the climate is too dry for that, instead they have the sun index, and the difference from shade and the sunny area is surprising on Friday morning it was18C, and 26C with sun index!!!

I picked Plaza Chile, Plaza Independencia and Plaza San Martin because they are my favorites and closer to my place.