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Buenos Aires public holidays: What to do when everything is closed (including your Spanish school)

Argentines love their holidays, and in a month like March they are blessed with several. However for the tourist and the Spanish language student the thought of closed shops, closed restaurants and closed cultural centers doesn’t have the same thrill as it does to your daily Buenos Aires office worker.

But don’t despair there are many [...]

Recoleta Fair: Not your everyday flea market

If you’re not quite in the mood for being the travel-guide wielding foreigner at one of Buenos Aires’ many tourist locations, the Recoleta Fair in Plaza Francia is a perfect way to spend a lazy Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Glittered with artisan stands and packed with porteño hippies, hipsters and tourists alike, the weekly fair [...]

Top it up for Argentine Oscar win!

Argentine’s film ‘El secreto de sus ojos’ (The Secret in Their Eyes) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film last night! It is directed by Juan José Campanella.

The thriller is set in the early 1970s Argentina. The story unfolds in the country’s main federal courthouse, where an investigator discovers co-workers torturing suspects [...]

Wander into the wild side of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires has a zoo in the city but actually not too far from the city, there is another zoo, or more accurately a bioparque called Temaikén. It is only an hour bus ride from Plaza Italia and the bus will drop you right off at the entrance.

Compare to the zoo in the [...]

Speaking Argentine Spanish – the Urban Dictionary

As a Spanish language learner in Buenos Aires I sometimes hears phrases that I dont understand. Together the words dont make literal sense so I know they must have some other meaning. Argentines have there own way of speaking Spanish and expressing themselves. In recognition of this the National Literature Academy [...]