The Parador Garden

It´s Christmas in Argentina again

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December 25th 2009
Saturday 19 December to Saturday 26 December. We left a shivering UK to head south to arrive in a hot day in Buenos Aires. Arriving at the airport was almost like coming home, little seemed to have changed in the 21 months we have been away. Little that is except prices - more later on this. We cabbed into the centre to our hotel near Plaza San Martin and checked in, revived ourselves with sho ... 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