Two Sundays ago we went to the Feria de Mataderos. It’s a regular Sunday afternoon market where you can find a little bit of everything: homemade wine/pastries/cheese/other foodstuff, leather goods, CDs, jewelrey, toys, carvings, clothes…they pretty much have it all. They also have live music, dancing, singing, and general entertainment. Unfortunately it was pouring rain that day so most of the vendors, musicians and dancers stayed home. We will be going back on the next sunny Sunday.

We went with a group of people from our school – a true international group as we had people from: Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, Brazil, U.S., Wales, and South Africa. We took the colectivo (city bus) because it only costs 90 centavos or 1 Peso depending on where you are going.

We wandered around the booths looking and buying small things until the smell of the parrilla was too strong to ignore and we sat down to eat choripan {chorizo(sausage) + pan(bread)=choripan}.

We ended up in a restaurant/dance hall to escape the rain and had a great time listening to live music and watching people dance. There was a mixture of people just walking in and dancing and some people who showed up in costume. It was great fun!

We ended the day sopping wet and happy.