Day 2, December 16th
As I run an ecommerce business I was still semi working while travelling. Part of the trip was to look for interesting jewelry and to visit some fair trade partners.
BA Fair Trade Store Products
I had family members taking care of shipping orders while I was away and expected that work wise I would have very little to do while away. Wrong! Murphy’s law – I had an issue with my website the first day.
As a result of this issue most of our plans for the day were put on hold while I dealt with my web developer, hosting and software companies. What a fun way to spend your first day on vacation!
Since we got up early, I was able to send messages out in the morning to each of my partner/suppliers to get them working on solving the issue. At that point there was nothing else I could do until they responded so we went out to explore.
I had prearranged a meeting with a fair trade organisation with whom I had been in contact with via email for over a year but had not purchased any of their products. The meeting was at 12:30 pm so we had a little bit of time to go for a walk before the meeting.
Our concierge had suggested a nice walk from the hotel through Plaza San Martin, along Arreyo across Av. 9 Julio, apparently the widest street in the world, to Av. Alvear to Plaza Alvear. Here we could explore the area a little and walk back to the fair trade store for my meeting.
Of course as they say, even the best laid plans….We missed one of the turns we were to make and ended up walking to the end of the Av. 9 de Julio and by this time we realised we would not have to walk around the area we had planned and still make it to the meeting in time.
We decided to walk back to where the fair trade store is located and have a coffee. On our way back we walked past the French embassy, a truly beautiful French architecture building with a BNP across the street (a French bank). I had little chuckle at the irony of a pile of dog poop at the front of the Embassy – it almost felt like the streets of Paris – French architecture, French bank and dog poop!
After the meeting at the Fair Trade store we returned to the hotel to check on my work problem and spent most of the day resolving that.
Read Other Posts In This Series:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX
Part X
Part XI
Part XII
Part XIII
Part XIV
Part XV
Part XVI
Part XVII
