Travel guides are great and useful but only to a certain extent. They cover all the possible must-see’s and must-do’s that you don’t even know what is really worth checking out anymore. Not to mention, the used-to-be cool spots might have turned into a tourist trap without the proper ‘evaluation’ in the [...]
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Shopping in Buenos Aires is fun especially if you are looking for local arts and crafts. There are many markets on the weekends where you can spend a good afternoon going stalls after stalls, looking for that special trinket, leather products or mate cups to take home. If you like to [...] It’s not a secret among the people around me that I absolutely love taking los colectivos (buses) here in Buenos Aires. When I first arrived in Buenos Aires, learning how to use the Guia T, figuring out my way in all the one-way streets, going from point A to point B was like playing my [...] So you thought it was almost impossible to move with your family from your native land to Buenos Aires, have a late night out without the kids and manage to tell all you did in Spanish? Jared, from the United States, showed us it is totally doable! He was almost an [...] September is one of the rare months in Argentina that we do not have a public holiday. However, we do have a very special day in this month that many people are looking forward to, and it is el primer día de la Primavera (the first day of Spring) on Sept. 21! This [...] Big city life is great. There’s never a lack of cultural activities to sink my teeth into. I could have plans every night of the week, spend every weekend exploring, and still have things left to find, experience, see, and do. But sometimes city life can be exhausting. Some days I long for the outdoors, [...] The first Sunday of every month at 16.00 hours, bici lovers unite at the Obelisk for Critical Mass or Masa Crítica, which is an event celebrated once a month in over 300 cities around the world. The goal is to bring together cyclists of all walks of life for a monthly bike ride through the [...] As Starbucks invades the world, including gradually taking up corners in Buenos Aires since a few years ago, the Starbucks lingo: tall, grande, venti, trenta, frappuccino etc, are also slowly entering the already coffee-riched Argentine culture. Nevertheless, these new terms aren’t replacing the traditional ones anytime soon (though with the arrival [...] Muchos alumnos de Vamos Spanish me preguntan seguido dónde pueden escuchar bandas locales o internacionales en Buenos Aires. Hay muchas opciones y para todos los gustos -aunque el número se redujo muchísimo después de la tragedia de Cromagnon – No todo es tango en Buenos Aires, y algunos de mis lugares [...] When preparing to travel to a foreign country, especially if you are planning to stay for a month or two like studying Spanish in Buenos Aires like me, you don’t know what the country has or doesn’t have. It’s normal that you want to be as prepared and bring as many of [...] |
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