Around the beginning of the 20th Century, when Don Rafael Diaz was 15 years old, he worked in a general store in the Montserrat area of Buenos Aires. He worked hard and even spent nights sleeping under the counter and ...
Nice overview of the main sights of Buenos Aires. Doesn't beat the real thing of course!
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to have a local tourism TV channel come along and film the tour in action. You can see all of their Argentina videos here, and most importantly, the first part of ...
Had a fun day yesterday as Argentinian tourism channel Turismo Visión came along to film the tour! They'd been looking for alternative ways to see the capital and loved the way we do things on colectivos and the Subte. It ...
Spotted this during today's tour in Abasto. Remind you of anything? Just can't think where they got the idea from...
With temperatures soaring, one question that I'm getting asked a lot at the moment is if Buenos Aires has anywhere to swim. For a city which, on a map at least, has a coastline this is not as easy to ...
Despite what you might think, Filete Porteño is not yet another cut of steak, but it is something you will see a lot of in your time here. Originally the decoration on horse-drawn carts, it has evolved to an art-form ...
If you were to ask a visitor to Buenos Aires to name somebody who for them summed the city up, they might answer Evita or maybe Maradona. Both good answers, but if you asked a Porteño, you may well hear ...
Being a bit of a geography nerd, one of the things I tend to notice when I travel is street names. In France it seems that every other street or avenue is named after a National Hero (Jean Jaurès is ...
If there's one way of impressing somebody who has never been to South America before, it's by saying, "Oh, I'm going to such and such tomorrow, it's a 20 hour bus ride". To someone who has been here before then ...
