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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A lot of visitors who have set foot in Buenos Aires, they always grow very fond of the city and develop this great attachment to it, including myself. It’s quite common for a tourist to keep changing his return flights and extending his stay. The most interesting observation is that it [...] Each Sunday in Buenos Aires, the San Telmo feria spans a nearly mile-long stretch of Calle Defensa, beginning at the iconic Plaza de Mayo and culminating in an antiques flea market at Plaza Dorrego. Vendors pack the cobbled streets of Defensa and crowds of tourists and Argentines browse through the goods, picking up items here [...] The end of year holidays here in Buenos Aires are hot, Hot, HOT! Many visitors, especially those who are from the northern hemisphere, they often share the same sentiments that ‘where is Christmas? I don’t feel it.’ The beautiful heat really dislodges any association of Christmas with snow, hot chocolate, apple [...] Living in Argentina, trying to earn my keep and all the while having an account full of Pounds has turned on its head my perspective towards one of the most abstract and yet essential motivators in the world: money. The power of currency was something that I never fully appreciated before coming to Argentina. I have [...] There are a myriad of shows, acts and musicals overflowing in Buenos Aires and they are all jostling to get under the lime light. Last weekend, my eyes were opened, so to speak, to a new phenomena as I went to experience the “Theatre for The Blind”. “Theatre for The Blind” sounds like a strange oxymoron [...] I have a few friends back home who refuse to check critics’ reviews of a movie before they go see it. Their reasoning: it taints the viewing experience, and they end up having the critics’ comments in the back of their mind during the entire movie. If the summary of the movie sounds good, according [...] In three days, I will have officially been in Buenos Aires for two months. It’s not like I haven’t felt it coming, since that’s one of the first questions I get when striking up a conversation with locals: “How long have you been here?” It comes right after, “So, where are you from?” and “Do you [...] 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 [...] Last Saturday night, there was an outdoor tango event called La Gran Milonga Nacional. This is a celebration of our beloved Tango culture, which is held every year taking over a good stretch of Avenida de Mayo with live orchestras and outdoor milongas (tango dancing). Since I haven’t gone to a tango event for quite [...] |
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