Holidays In Argentina

There is a wonderful culture of Argentines taking advantage of and giving good name to holiday opportunities. The first day of spring for example is a holiday, Student Day, and you will find the youth out in stride. In the winter months, they have Friends day, which seems to me to be quite a humorous and wonderful idea. What happens on friends day, either you celebrate your friends, or yourself for having friends? Way to go me! Yesterday, Monday, October 13, is Columbus day around these parts. In all honesty, I couldn't tell you when that day is in the U.S. Which might have to do with the way I feel about the whole conquest and what not. Nonetheless, it manifests in another three day weekend where people escape the city and head for...Tigre seems to be that one place where Argentines escape to. Stores remain, in a confusing fashion open and closed, and the subte is free.
Tigre is just a jump away by train, and soon you can find yourself surrounded by verdent landscapes, clean air, and river. The town itself is quite a playland, offering an art museum in an old hotel building with garden terraces and simple and impecable architecture. There is a theme park with roller coasters, one resembling the Top Gun ride from Paramount's Great America, if you happen to know the greater San Jose, Ca area. River taxis can tow you away from the town, and into kilometers of privet docs. and quite space, where the sounds of everything tend to just trail off.
So, prepare for the next one, December 8th, is the day of Immaculate Conception, which might not be the type of holiday to go off skinny dipping with your Argentine friends, but then again, most days are a cause for fun and drink around here, and that's not such an exaggeration. People of all social classes tend to take a load off when they are able and escape the noise pollution, and air pollution of capital federal and run off to greener pastures in what means they have and are able. Indeed, if your own capture and domination is a day to celebrate, then well immaculate conception is the creme de la creme.