Blogs from Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America - page 260

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I wrote a long entry for today that I will update as soon as I make it to a cafe with wireless... until then... here´s my highlight: Jess and I put together her room´s TV with a broken cable and our room´s wonderful cable with a broken TV and created one funcional television! We watched dancing toothbrush commercials, a spanish cooking show and part of Law and Order, en español. All in all, it was a nice, relaxing night after a long day. And few things are greater than Spanish commercials for erotic tips that can be sent to your cell phone to spice up your sex life! ... read more


With only a couple of additional days left for us in Buenos Aires, Monday needed to include some needed gift shopping and perhaps some additional point-of-interest visits. After our always-anticipated buffet breakfast at the Marriott, we left our hotel in search of some items requested by my wife Elizabeth. Since she owns several teapots from around the World (mostly from Asia), she had asked me to look in Argentina for something unique from this country. We focused our search in the area close to Retiro, but after going into several stores selling Argentinean crafts and inquiring about teapots, they only offered blank stares back and advised us to go into this or that other specialized store. As we followed their advice, we found the stores to be kitchen-supply-stores selling the type of pots and pans that ... read more
Pensive Traveller
Dorrego Plaza's Cinema Theme Eatery
Gaze from the Past


Another adventure in the world of soccer… Today I got up early to travel to River Stadium (where River Plate, Boca Juniors’ Rival team in Buenos Aires, plays) to stand in line to get tickets for a soccer game. Not just any soccer game though… this Wednesday the Argentine National team, the one preparing to play in the World Cup, will be taking on the Argentine Under 20 team. What does this mean? You can’t loose by cheering for Argentina! After getting out of the cab at River Stadium, it took 20 minutes to walk around the stadium to where the line ended: past the stadium, past the onramp to the interstate, and all the way down 60 yards onto the interstate! I stood in line for 2 and a half hours with 5 other students ... read more


Open any guide book to Buenos Aires and you will find that the world claims this city as synonymous with Tango. The two are inseparable. Knowing this, I felt it only appropriate to take on the daunting task of unraveling what exactly tango is. I´m delving into the skirts of tango in Buenos Aires. Let me tell you what I´ve done. Before even coming to Buenos Aires, I attended a world class tango show at the Ferst Center at Georgia Tech. From this show I learned that tango was a feeling, a seductive, overwhelming feeling, one that isn´t just thought up, but truly felt in the gut. Not only is it an emotion, but it is one of the most beautiful visual dances in the world. I left this show ecstatic and thrilled, breathless and enchanted. ... read more
Senor Tango
Clasica y Moderna


This is the buidling next to ours. Abdul had just gone to the gym and I was in bed watching Will and Grace when it went off. I thought our windows where going to break and were on the 12th floor! All the windows on the buildings and shops across the street broke. I thought it was a bomb. Freaky!!! Gas explosion kills two Firemen work outside an apartment building in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Recoleta yesterday where a natural-gas explosion and an ensuing fire killed two people and injured 14. ... read more
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I colori e l'atmosfera de La Boca sono difficili da descrivere a parole....... read more
La Boca
La Boca
La Boca


Rain is dripping off the fragile points of trees and smearing everything on the sidewalks. walking home i smelled fresh bread everywhere and it made me want to slip into a nice warm jacket of a cafe and drink coffee and fresh hot bread layered in butter. I am in a slow sleepy mood. Listening to Nina Simone at a volume where I can feel her voice rattle my bones and give me chills. The more I listen to Nina Simone the more I like her. She hits me somewhere deep but leaves me hanging. She makes me feel sexy, joyful, light as a cobweb, moody, strong as an oak. You can tell when I am walking around BsAs and listening to her. There is something different in the strides I take. When I listen to ... read more


many geographical hotspots have their own motto. for example, belize's is "you better belize it!" connecticut's is "connecticut:we're full of surprises." the united states is apparently the "land of the free," whoever that's supposed to be referring to. argentina's is "argentina: un pais, en serio!" which translates roughly to "argentina: seriously, we're a country!" in our three weeks in this "country," we have come up with a few more...how should i say this...appropriate mottos. here's one: Argentina: Your Unreliable Friend because here's the thing. everyone has that unreliable friend, right? you know who i'm talking about. he says he'll be there at 8, but you call at 10 and he says he's not coming. she borrows a cd and only after you've forgotten you ever owned it does she return it, if ever. or, say, he's ... read more


Il fascino del Porto reso ancora più interessante dalla sfilata di Mucche create dai più importanti artisti contemporanei argentini...... read more
puerto madero
puerto madero
Barbie


My head is numb from three hours of hollering, noise making and jumping estatically at the soccer game. I cannot possibly do my homework or even think about studying for our History Mid term tomorrow. Forget it. I would rather upload fotos, write a blog and go to bed before two AM. Bad news, Lindsay's computer has a virus and the hard drive is apparently dead. What a pity, all of our fotos are deleted and no more. Not to mention the 8 GB of music she had on the computer or important documents (vegetarian recipes, Rochlin papers, Guitar Tabs and new paper articles). What a shame and what terrible luck we've been having with electronics. I need some ice cream. NEWS FLASH Laura and Chuck have arrived from Canada. They are happy, in love and ... read more
mariu
lindsay
Viva Evita




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