Demonstration on Avenida de Mayo

So we were actually out and about. After our lunch at Cafe Tortoni, we had a coffee at a sidewalk cafe and enjoyed the actual on the famous Avenida de Mayo. It's still hard for us to believe that we are really here! We were enjoying ourselves so much that we didn't realize that it was rush hour already. We were in el centro and it was impossible to get a taxi. So we went back into Cafe Tortoni and enjoyed a bottle of wine while waiting for the traffic to let up. But then we heard a lot of noise outside and realized there was a huge demonstration going on in the street. Must have been a hundred thousand people or so banging on things. We eventually gave in and started walking in the direction of our apartment, although we really didn't want Gene on his foot. Eventually we caught a taxi home and had something to talk about over dinner. There's always something new going on. When I asked the taxi driver about the march (which apparently was about the ongoing dispute with the government about taxes on food exports), he threw up his hands and said that they are always demonstrating about something!