First Week in Buenos Aires: It's Taken a Few Years Off My Life and the Lives of Those Around Me, I Reckon May 8th 2011 So the last few days have been, as Aaron Berry Cook puts it, an alcoholic haze. Yesterday Brett and I actually did some productive things we walked around the city and saw some sights. We walked through Recoleta which is a really nice part of the city and reminded me a lot of Paris. There were all kinds of high end shops and stores lining the street. I bought a new Barca jacket since I had the Hol ... read more
South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires 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
Human life lasts but an instant. One should spend it doing what one pleases. In this world fleeting as a dream, to live in misery doing only what one dislikes is foolishness!!... full info