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 ...
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As wonderful as Buenos Aires is, at some point you will want to escape for a few hours, if only for a change of scenery. Thankfully getting away from it is not difficult (or expensive) and there are some lovely ...
OK, so two photos today and not of anyone actually tangoing either but two iconic tango places in Buenos Aires. Carlos Gardel is to Tango what Maradona is to Football. Except more so. And he's dead. The world's greatest ever Tango ...
Eric Fischer on Flickr has published a photoset that examines the GeoTagging information in each Flickr photograph of a city and analyses the users behaviour to establish whether the photographer can be classified as a "local' or a "tourist". For ...
The driving in Buenos Aires is not the worst in South America, but that's not saying much. When I first came here from Europe travelling in a bus or taxi was one of the most terrifying (or exhilarating if you've ...
