Yesterday my friend Alejandro and I went for a walk around Plaza Francia. It’s a park just five minutes from me, where in normal times there is an artesan fair every weekend of the year. Sadly, of course, it has been missing for the past six months, and it’s kind of sad to see the park without it.

But there was a nice surprise. As we approached the part where the fair usually is, we heard applause, and as we got closer we found it was a choir standing in a socially distanced circle. We arrived just in time for this:

It was just enough to remind us of what we always say — in Buenos Aires anything can happen at any time! Fortunately, this was a nice thing — which we need these days.

Today I’m hoping to be back in the area to meet my friends Venetia and Liz, although the weather is kind of iffy. Fingers crossed the rain holds off.