Rosario, Asado, Manu Chao

Another weekend done traveling to another place outside the highway General Paz to the river port city of Rosario. Either the second or third biggest city in Argentina, Rosario lies along the heavy trade route of the Parana River which extends from the Patanal of Brasil down through Argentina before exiting in the Rio de la Plata. A place with unique character, the city is probably better known for some of it's more prominant characters. The most important being Commandante Ernesto ¨Che¨Guevara who is from Rosario. Today, the biggest name on the global scale to come out of Rosario is FIFA player of the year Leo Messi. I appreciated the more laid back nature of the city, as well as nightlife which I experienced more than the day. It was also the first time that I witnessed a common Argentine bachelor party or "Despedida de Soltero" while eating pizza at a streetside restaurant. A last party night with a Bachelor's friends is also a memorable night of humiliation in front of those walking the nighttime city streets. In one example, a van drove down the avenue with cars alongside honking their horns until it came to a stop streetside. Both backdoors of the van were open, and the reason for the commotion was an apparent bachelor duck taped to some object within the van, dressed in a nice dress shirt accompanied by a pink vest. However, the dress shirt didn't quite seem to fit the pants, which in this case, they were non-existent. With his backside exposed to all on Peregrini Avenue, it was a bachelor sendoff he surely wasn't going to forget. (to be continued...)