CASA HOLDEN

Here are two pictures of our apartment at Casa Holden - looking into the apartment from the hallway, into the sitting room which leads to the bedroom and bath. The sitting room ceiling is a very high dome with a lovely skylight. There is a balcony off of the sitting room, and the second picture is looking out to the balcony.





And, as I had previously mentioned, directly across the street from the Casa is Maru Botana!!

CASA HOLDEN

Here are a few pictures of the Casa - a view from the street, and the interior passageway that leads to the front entryway and to the back of the Casa. I will post some more pictures when I figure out if it is possible to upload more than four pictures at a time! See the white booth? There is 24 hour security for the neighborhood. We have noted that the Belgrano neighborhood has many police and security personnel, some of which are no doubt related to the numerous embassies located in this part of town.

The weather has been very nice, with mostly sunny skies and daytime highs between 60 and 70 - Rhonda's kind of weather!!

For today's outing, we caught the subte at our local stop at Olleros and rode a couple of stops to Juramento. Along Calbildo in this part of town there are many, many, many shops. So we looked, but no doubt Rhonda will return to do much more serious "looking." One thing that we did buy was a pass card for the subte.

CASA HOLDEN ADDRESS

For those of you who may be interested, here is our contact information:

Casa Holden
Pepperdine University
11 de Septiembre 955
(1426) Capital Federal
Buenos Aires
Argentina

The phone number for the Casa is 011-54-11-4772-5969, and our extension is 235. We also have a cell phone that can be reached at 011-54-911-5705-3386. We have turned off our USA cell phone, 310.460.8377, and will not use that number again until May, 2007. Of course you can always email us at dswartze@pepperdine.edu and rswartze@pepperdine.edu

Today we walked on some new streets in the neighborhood, and are learning the street names and the locations of the train stations and subway (subte) stops. Rhonda found a yarn shop and bought a nice skein of yarn, and is getting started on knitting a scarf. Dago and I took the subte on a search for a chip for our cell phone, but it will be easier to use the local cell phone and calling cards.