A big event - the first parrilla

Argentina, Land of sirloin. And rump. And rib-eye. And...

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October 8th 2011
After five years of being dreamt about, the next Big Trip begins - the Great Trans-American Adventure. And Buenos Aires is where it all starts. Now-bleedingly-obvious-but-never-really-thought-about-it-before-observation number one: South America is a long way away. A very long way away. Looking at a map of the world it hardly seems possible that the Argentine capital is a whopping fou ... 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