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Move to the Beat: La Bomba de Tiempo

I dare to say that you only need to be in Buenos Aires for as little as one week time, and you’d find out that THE one thing to do on a Monday night is to go see La Bomba de Tiempo at Konex Culture Centre. La Bomba de Tiempo is a 17-piece [...]

Los Colectivos Part 2: The Guia T

If you want to be able to navigate the city like a pro or simply like a local, you need to get a copy of Guia T, or as I call it The Bible. Guia T comes in a couple of sizes: a very handy palm-sized one (as shown in picture) that fits in a [...]

Maradona earring

A diamond earring that used to belong to Diego Maradona has been sold for 25,000 euros (£22,000)!

Read more at BBC reports: Maradona earring sold at auction in Italy

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Running with the birds

I saw a turtle this morning. He looked a little lost, as one would expect a turtle to look in huge city like Buenos Aires. I was a good neighbour though and pointed out the way to the closest lagoon as he stumbled along one of the paths of the Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur, the [...]

Helado

Why do I love Buenos Aires? Because of the ice-cream.

It is a city where it is considered normal to get ice-cream home delivered. You ring up the ice-cream parlour, tell them what flavours you would like, they put it all in a cold container, they throw in some cones and drop it off at your [...]

Dakar 2010

The first day of the new year brought with it to Buenos Aires the start of the Dakar Rally. It is only the second time the adventure race has been held in South America and thousands of Argentines lined the street of the city center to cheer the drivers on.

With the back drop of [...]