Hour 3 - These streets

The Cobbled Stoned Streets:

On our way to Martin's birthday party I bent down to touch the cobbled stoned road. "I like this," I said. "Yes I like them too, but they are sad," Gaston said.

I could not imagine what sadness had to do with the historic stones. Gaston began to tell me how the stones came to be here in Argentina. When the Spanish came to Argentina they needed to weigh down their ships so they placed these cobbled stones in the mass of the ship.

On their way back they took "un monton" a ton of gold, silver, and men as slaves. "They did not need their stones anymore because they had our treasure. They left us these stones. We used them to build roads. These are expensive streets, but they are pretty.