Dancing in La Boca

Sinead on an orange bike, Philippe doing the tango and a mad Scotsman at our door... only in Buenos Aires!

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August 21st 2009
Champagne really helps you get over the fact that you are stuck in a bus for 17 hours. Whiskey and wine help too. The bus company must have cottoned on to this fact a while ago, as we were plied with drink during our first experience of first-class travelling. We had stumped up the extra cash to get ourselves a fully reclinable seat with a little wall behind us. We did not regret the extra fiv ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more