It probably won't come of any great surprise that I hold somewhat of a fascination with the humble Buenos Aires colectivo. They are everywhere, speeding down the wide avenues of Palermo and clogging the narrow streets of Microcentro, yet to ...
Posted on 29 Dec in
Argentina Buenos Aires
I came across Daniel Tunnard's blog Colectivaizeishon a few weeks ago and was instantly taken with his idea of catching every one of the 141 bus lines in Buenos Aires and writing about it. As a fellow Brit and Buenos ...
There's an interesting article in La NaciĆ³n today (link in Spanish) which gives some of the statistics regarding the Buenos Aires colectivo system, especially concerning the subsidy system which means that the passenger is only paying 32% of the actual ...
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 ...