So this is before I forget: I went to Buenos Aires, for a whirlwind 3 nights and 4 days, during Semana Santa. I had the good fortune of staying and exploring with my dear friend from New York, right before she returned to the New York/NJ metropolitan area after a few months of studying in BA. We ambled through Palermo, San Telmo, Puerto Madero, La Boca, and Recoleta, catching the buses from time to time (Argentina´s busses have so much more character than Santiago´s, the relative difficulty of obtaining enough monedas to pay for it notwithstanding). What struck me about the city, beyond its beauty and stark contrast to Santiago (graceful, ´european¨, sweeping -- since I´ve never been to Europe, I´m appropriating that adjective from everybody who has ever described what I saw -- to Santiago´s
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