Yesterday we spent Valentine´s day in the famous Chocolate Box in Buenos Aires and at 31 degrees we certainly melted.
We awoke yesterday - Valentine´s day - and walked from Palermo to La Boca to the Bombadero stadium - nicknamed the Cholocate Box to tout 2 tickets for Boca´s 1st game of the season vs. Newells.
It´s a 1 hr walk and it´s pretty hot in BA this week so we pretty exhausted by the time wegot there. La Boca is supposed to be a rough part of BA but we found the people to be just as warm as every other Argentine we´ve met here.
We had a coffee in a wee cafe near the ground and then asked one of the stadium guards where we could get a ticket. He advised us of where to go and we found a tout very easy - paying double the face value, which was 60 pesos each - circa 10 GBP.
After getting the metro home we came back for the 5.10pm KO very excited. And we were not disappointed. The Bombadero has only standing at both ends - where the home fans are located - and the seats are on both sides of the pitch. This makes for a great atmosphere and we were in one of the ends with fans who truly love their team, football and songs. It reminded me of Celtic Park before the seats came in.
Unfortunately along with us, Boca melted in the afternoon sun losing 2-0 at home - a shock defeat - but the Boca fans chanted from start to finish, playing their drums and blowing their whistles - never saying die until the final whistle.
We were locked in for 40 mins after the game - no reason why! but we walked away from the ground feeling as comfortable as ever.
So we melted in the Chocolate Box on Valentine´s day along with the famous Boca Juniors amigos.
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