Buenos Aires - First Impression

After spending a few days in Buenos Aires, my impression of it is that it is BIG!!  I know Toronto is too with an area of 7000 km squared, over 2.5 million people in the city centre and  and over 6 million people if you consider the greater Toronto area (thanks Wikipedia).  But that's not the kind of big I am talking about.  Being in Buenos Aires, you get a real impression of grandness, with hundreds of elegant structures, buildings and statues in the many plazas and squares. There are  towering monuments to historical figures, a park area that seems to take up half the city, and six and eight lane one-way roads.  Our impression of it is that it is like a fusion of New York and Washington.

We rented an apartment in Palermo, a poshy area with a lot of restaurants, grocery stores, and access to public transit. One of the first things I did in Buenos Aires was get a hair cut :-)  After that we spent the next couple of days exploring Palermo, its parks and getting ourselves oriented.  We found a yoga studio for Mareen and a couple of BJJ academies for me to train at.  Its nice to be back in a big city!!